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The slippery subject of eel reproduction evaded human understanding for millennia.
Acre was the most cosmopolitan city in the medieval world. Its inhabitants thought it too valuable to destroy. They were wrong.
Shampooing was brought to Britain by a Bengali immigrant who knew his craft – and how to sell it.
Stately homes surrounded by extravagant gardens are a staple of the English countryside, but how were they funded?
A courtier of refined sensibility and an adventurer of bold and boundless ambition.
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Volume 70 Issue 3 March 2020
In the March issue:
- Shampoo Empire
- Britain’s Gardening Revolution
- A Cure Worse than Disease
- The Great Rabbit Hoax
- The State of the Nation
- Why is the Public so Obsessed with the Nazis?
- Escape to Mexico
- Sexual Eeling
- Liverpool’s Slave Trade
- English Saints in Ireland
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