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Measurement: an unexpected history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Treason: from Anne Boleyn to Lord Haw Haw . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A real and a virtual Tycho Brahe surveys the heavens next to his mural quadrant in the frontispiece to ‘Machines of the New Astronomy’. (Photo by DEA/G.DAGLI ORTI via Getty Images)
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A history of science in 10½ objects . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Jesus is shown cleansing ten lepers in a scene from the Gospel According to Luke, illustrated in an 11th-century manuscript
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Leprosy How has the disease been perceived and treated through history?

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Oscar Wilde with Lord Alfred Douglas in 1893
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From Oscar Wilde to David Irving: 9 landmark libel & defamation cases through history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Geometric pavers, colourful doors and gingerbread trim on a pair of Victorian terrace houses
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Snuffers, scrapers and murder-holes: walking through the history of the front door . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Powerful pages: the beguiling history of books . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

c1400 farmer ploughing a field.
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6 of the most catastrophic weather events in British history

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British schools and education: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Clare Jackson with her Wolfson History Prize winning book, Devil-land
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The story of England’s turbulent Stuart century wins the Wolfson History Prize 2022

Mowgli is surrounded by wolves in a 1937 illustration from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book
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Raised by wolves: the history of feral children

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An environmental history of big business

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African-American philanthropy  . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Recentering African narratives . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Reconstructing the body of God . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.