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Sex and love

A portrait of Jane Austen. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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‘Portrait of a Lady’ by Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden, c1460. From the collection of the National Gallery, London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Medieval underwear: bras, pants and lingerie in the Middle Ages

Matilda: William the Conqueror’s queen

A London Missionary Society (LMS) mission in Papua New Guinea, c1920s. (Photo by Chronicle/Alamy Stock Photo)

Married to a missionary

A poster depicting a First World War soldier musing over having caught a venereal disease while on furlough.(Photo by David Pollack/Corbis via Getty Images)

Sex and the First World War: the Tommies who visited brothels

The A to Z of royal weddings with Tracy Borman

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Should the public pick up the tab for the royal wedding?

Did Henry VIII love his last wife Katherine Parr?

The truth behind ‘The Tudors’ TV show

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