Social history

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Thrash away!

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Golf vs Work

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The Schartz-Metterklume Method

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The Wipers Times

Members of the royal family on board the royal barge 'Spirit of Chartwell'. (Rota/Anwar Hussein/Getty Images)

The Library The Thames triumphant: royal parties on London’s grandest street

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A contemporary view of the river Seine and Notre-Dame de Paris. (Getty Images)

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Two medieval men thresh a sheaf of wheat in this 14th century illustration. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Michael Wood on the history of you and me

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Wife for sale

The Queen's silver jubilee took place in 1977. (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images)

Why the Seventies still matter

What are the origins of the ‘mutes’ that attended Victorian funerals?

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Who’s winning?

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Holocaust

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The patient

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Going public: history beyond the academy

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The Right Kind of History: Teaching the Past in Twentieth-Century England