Weird and wonderful history

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Q&A Who was the last Groom of the Stool?

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Researchers go into battle to test Bronze Age weapons

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‘Earliest portrait of guinea pig’ revealed in unseen painting

The master of dressage

Illustration by Glen McBeth.

Q&A: How far back in time would I have to go until I couldn’t understand what people were saying?

A noisy history of the world

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General History

Q&A Q&A: Have twins ever been in line for the throne?

LA Times photo from newspaper report 1942

A big day in history: Japanese planes attack Los Angeles. Or do they?

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Q&A: Where does the word ‘crack’, describing military units, originate?

'Resurrectionists', or grave robbers, stealing a corpse from a cemetery to be sold for anatomical study and dissection, c1840. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Victorian trade in dead bodies

Our Lady of Sorrows, by unknown artist (20th century), photographic reproduction, 103x65 cm, inv 1602. Copyright Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosian. (Getty Images)

The day a Mexican farmer had a vision of the Virgin Mary

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Q&A: When was the first wheelchair introduced?

‘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

Scenes of frivolity in the 16th century. (Culture Club/Getty Images)

Bad sports? Puritan attempts to ban games in 17th-century England