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Pirates, propaganda and the history of swearing . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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What is a deodand?

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The reverend in the lion’s den

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Historians are wrong to kick football into touch

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A 'poster parade' of Ealing suffragettes advertising a meeting to be held on Ealing Common, 1 June 1912. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

9 historical sites linked to the suffragettes movement . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How do we record history education?

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Has Britain always united behind commemorations of the war dead?

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Trials of the Diaspora. A History Of Anti-Semitism In England

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Up and Down Stairs

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Bending the Twigs

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A Brief History of Nakedness

The dark art of blackmail prepared Charles Théveneau de Morande well for a career in espionage. (Alamy)

Charles Théveneau de Morande: an 18th-century French spy in London

‘Smugglers', c1785, from ‘Adventures by sea from art of old time’ by Basil Lubbock. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

Smugglers and the birth of Britain’s consumer society

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Anton Chekhov (1860–1904), pictured here c1895, is one of the most important figures in modern Russian literature. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

My history hero: Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The white cliffs of Dover. (Photo by Don Klumpp via Getty Images)

Paper talk: a newspaper’s take on the Restoration