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Museum bid to acquire ‘new world’ George Stubbs paintings

Christians ‘airbrushed women out of history’

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Tube station used as WW2 command centre put up for sale

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Great Train Robbery gang: first-class thieves or criminals who got lucky?

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Civil War battlefield added to English Heritage list

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‘World’s oldest calendar’ discovered in field in Scotland

Team to trace pioneering Grand Canyon journey

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Mick Aston obituary

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Second World War bomber recovered from Channel

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New Mary Rose museum opens in Portsmouth

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‘4,000-year-old skeleton’ uncovered near Windsor

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Yorkshire Viking hoard ‘is nationally important’

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Bones exhumed from unmarked grave at ‘Alfred the Great’ church

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Neanderthals became extinct ‘due to large eyes’

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Viking ‘sunstone’ found in shipwreck

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