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Pancake day celebrations

The history of Shrove Tuesday

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Hidden Figures: the incredible real history behind the film

Bloody designs: Cato Street conspirators (from l to r) John Monument, Arthur Thistlewood, William Davidson and Richard Tidd. The plotters planned to sever cabinet-members' heads and stick them on poles at Westminster Bridge. (Photo by Getty Images/Alamy)

The Cato Street conspiracy Georgian terrorists: the bungled plot to kill the cabinet

Millennium Centre, Cardiff. (Photo by Dreamstime)

Simon Jenkins: “Wales needs to get over England and be Wales again”

Cat burglars scaled walls and climbed through lofty windows. (Illustration by Rachel Dickens for BBC History Magazine)

The rise of the cat burglar

Andrew Ziminski pictured at his workshop in Somerset.

General ancient history

Books interview with Andrew Ziminski: “The stonework at Stonehenge is a Gordian knot of mind-bogglingness”

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