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1939: A shop assistant working at the cash desk in a Ladies Hosiery department store in Birmingham. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Beauty before durability: the interwar beginnings of fast fashion . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A baby sits on a toilet and pulls toilet paper from a roll

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A brief history of the toilet: wiping, washing – plus, who invented the flush?

Dictator of Soviet Russia, Joseph Stalin, addresses voters, of the Stalin election district in Moscow, on the even of the election in which Russians voted for the first time under the new constitution.

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Æthelstan: why is writing a biography of one of England’s greatest kings so difficult? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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24 July

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Portrait of Jacq Barnard.

My life in history Project manager at the Sutton Hoo's Ship's Company . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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