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Love, health and the weather: 9 things medieval Londoners worried about
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9 people you didn’t know made history swimming in the River Thames
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Did the Thames used to freeze over?
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When were the wreaths first laid at the Cenotaph?
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Could you really once be hanged for impersonating a Chelsea Pensioner?
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My history hero: Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980)
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Sin City: thievery, prostitution and murder in medieval London
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