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Æthelstan gives away his sister, St Editha to Sigtrid, king of Northbria, watercolour byThomas Mattews Rooke after a stained glass window by Ford Madox Brown, 1909. Birmingham Museums Trust/Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. Public Domain.
‘The First King of England’ by David Woodman review
Passers-by looking at a modern sculpture in the window of a Wimpy Bar in London, c.1961. Photograph by John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins. © Estate of John Hopkins.
Wimpy vs McDonald’s: The Battle of the Burgers
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Frederic Dorr Steele for Collier's Magazine, 1903. University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books. Public Domain.
The Rise and Fall of the British Detective Novel
Scene showing communion (left) and excommunication (right) from the Decretales of Giovanni d’Andrea, 13th century. Luisa Ricciarini/Bridgeman Images.
Get Out: Excommunicated in Medieval England
‘Strange hieroglyphs’: rongorongo inscription, Easter Island. George Holton/Science Photo Library
The Lost Script of Rapa Nui
Jesse Owens, Luz Long, and Naoto Tajima recieve medals for long jump at the Berlin Olympics, 1 August 1936. Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe. Public Domain.
The Hitlers in the United States
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