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An 1872 illustration from the weekly newspaper Days’ Doings shows a shoplifter being apprehended (Photo by Look and Learn/Rosenberg Collection/Bridgeman Images)

Lady swindlers: 6 women who turned to lives of crime and became queens of the underworld . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Life - Eleanor Roosevelt_WL

Eleanor Roosevelt: life of the week . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How did the US get so many guns?

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Chinese workers tend a tea plantation in a mid-19th-century lithograph. Importing leaves from China was expensive – until Scottish botanist Robert Fortune introduced the plants to India. (Photo by Getty Images)

Eastern promises: the long and troubled history of Britain’s relations with China . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Nicola Fox and Marie Curie

My history hero Nicola Fox chooses Marie Curie . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Behind headlines WL (1)

The UK’s far right movement: history behind the headlines . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Kate Williams Royal Palaces WL

Hidden labs, sex gardens & torture attics: secrets of British royal palaces . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Crystal Palace burns down in December 1936

Q&A The Crystal Palace was constructed of iron and glass – so how and why did it burn down?

Senator Edward Kennedy leaves the Dukes County Courthouse in Edgartown, Mass

What was the Chappaquiddick incident?

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Noah Charney - Mona Lisa WL

Stealing the Mona Lisa . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Alan Lester et al Empire WL

Has imperial history become too politicised? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Adam IP Smith Assassinations WL

Assassinations that shaped US history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Behind headlines WL (1)

Is democracy doomed? History behind the headlines . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Lucy Lethbridge Domestic Service WL

Servants: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The England football team badge, showing three lions on a field of ten Tudor roses

Q&A Why are there three lions on the shirts of the English football team?