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Revealed: the British First World War officer who married a nurse who wanted him dead

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An illustration of King Henry VIII and his six wives

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Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, speaking at a Nazi rally in 1936. (Photo by ullstein bild / ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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Did Robin Hood have a love interest before Maid Marian?

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Should we rewrite Jane Austen’s classic novels?

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The generational shift from home births to hospitals

A Pompeian fresco from the first century showing a woman tuning a musical instrument. Excavations at the partially buried Roman city reveal that women played a prominent role in the home, and that they took personal grooming very seriously indeed. (Photo by: Werner Forman/UIG via Getty Images)

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A portrait of Jane Austen. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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‘Portrait of a Lady’ by Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden, c1460. From the collection of the National Gallery, London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Medieval underwear: bras, pants and lingerie in the Middle Ages

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Matilda: William the Conqueror’s queen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A London Missionary Society (LMS) mission in Papua New Guinea, c1920s. (Photo by Chronicle/Alamy Stock Photo)

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A poster depicting a First World War soldier musing over having caught a venereal disease while on furlough.(Photo by David Pollack/Corbis via Getty Images)

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You’d be a mug to sneer at royal wedding souvenirs

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Should the public pick up the tab for the royal wedding?

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Did Henry VIII love his last wife Katherine Parr?

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