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David Olusoga “The Victorians constructed a great empire of abstinence” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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David Olusoga “Desks went from a niche furniture item to the work station of millions” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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David Olusoga "Half a million cats and dogs were put to death in 1939 – for no good reason" . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood on statues "These ‘history wars’ over statues are really about something bigger: about different views of the past, and who controls it" . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood at BBC History Magazine's History Weekend in Chester (Photo byVictoria Tetley / VJT Photography)
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Michael Wood on the Peterloo photograph . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood on a controversial term “As a racism row rumbles on, is it time to retire the term ‘Anglo-Saxon’?” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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St Catharine's College, Cambridge has already removed a bell from view after concluding it came from a slave plantation. (Image by Alamy)
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Anna Whitelock Confronting slavery’s legacy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. (Illustration by Femke de Jong for BBC History Magazine)
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Michael Wood On Anglo-Saxon manuscripts . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood on… slavery . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood on Anglo-Saxon Christianity . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood on… the Galloway Hoard

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Michael Wood… on radical Islamism . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood on… Oxford’s Cecil Rhodes statue . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.