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Why you should avoid hair-pulling, and cannibalism, at royal banquets. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This print depicts men gathered in a Tudor alehouse, a lively hub of social life where people met to drink, gossip and discuss events. Alehouses were central to everyday life in 16th-century England.
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For ordinary Tudors, death lurked around every corner with these surprising ways to die

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Michael Wood on women's contributions to the Bayeux Tapestry. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How the Cold War made the modern world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Alva Vanderbilt: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Alice Roberts: “Christianity didn’t invent itself as an empire from nothing: it adapted existing Roman structures”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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