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7 weird and wonderful Georgian beauty treatments
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Beans, ale & ‘windy meats’: surprising 17th-century aphrodisiacs
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Danny Robins' paranormal cold cases
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Germany’s naked truth: the 19th-century nudism movements co-opted by the Nazis
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Dinosaur dung billionaires: the Victorian ‘gold rush’ for fossilised faeces
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What was the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary?
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Hold your noses: the smells, sounds and sights of Elizabethan England
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Unexpected Edwardians
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A knight’s (tall) tale: why medieval traveller Sir John Mandeville was more popular than Marco Polo
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When were passports as we know them today first introduced?
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