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Mompesson House, which has sinister connections with a ghost known as the Demon Drummer. (Clare Hargreaves/The National Trust)

9 haunted historic houses

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Britain’s Second World War and the Country House . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Behind the scenes of Suzannah Lipscomb’s ‘Hidden Killers of the Post-War Home’

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5 hidden killers of the Victorian home

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Queen Victoria at home and a new Civil War museum . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Dinner at a Victorian workhouse

History explorer: Life in the Victorian workhouse . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The historians’ take on… The house price boom

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For sale: 7 amazing historical homes owned by Henry VIII, Charles II and Winnie the Pooh

The inmates' dining hall at the Poplar Poor Law Union workhouse in London, 1903. Though it was widely reviled, the Poor Law would survive another 45 years. (Mary Evans)

Living in the shadow of the workhouse

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A brief history of home ownership in Britain

Some household cures would aim to rebalance the body's humours

Household medicine: sickness, salves and skillets

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Life in a London slum and the Last Judgement . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.