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The author of the quaint, but much-loved Ladybird books was also a radical playwright.

Toussaint Louverture, the father of Haitian independence, became an unlikely star of the Victorian London stage.

Alcohol was an integral part of diplomacy in early modern Russia.

Mills & Boon’s medical romances helped make the NHS more appealing to an ambivalent public.

What can rock art of the desert tell us about life and death 10,000 years ago?

Mississippi’s governors have had a unique approach to prison labour and prisoner rehabilitation.

How did women experience warfare in early medieval Britain?

The extraordinary insurrections of Gustave Paul Cluseret.

While science and medicine advance, myths around menstruation persist.

The impact and long-term legacy of Uruguay’s progressive leader.