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The Real Jim Hawkins: Ships’ Boys in the Georgian Navy

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Protection for historical buildings

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Young politician

Uncertainty and unrest: the madness of the Regency period. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Liar, liar

My history hero: Christopher Clayton Hutton (1893–1965). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The plague, Sir Walter Ralegh and Jerusalem. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Talk like a lady

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The price of smoke

"A taste for husbands' buttocks": the bizarre history of pregnancy cravings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Convicts and colonisers: the early history of Australia. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Postwar refugees: nowhere to go for Christmas. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&A: Were conscientious objectors in the Second World War given white feathers?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The war on witches. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A history of the high street

What did the Baby Boomers Ever do for Us?

England in miniature. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Second World War

Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler’s Capital 1939–45

English Houses 1300–1800

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Best-dressed Briton in history: the nominations

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The American ‘Occupation’ of Britain: Three films

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Capital Affairs: London and the Making of the Permissive Society

Second World War

Survivors

Historic Jedburgh

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The Excellent Mrs Fry: Unlikely Heroine

Pirates, propaganda and the history of swearing. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

What is a deodand?

The reverend in the lion’s den

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Historians are wrong to kick football into touch

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