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Buckingham Palace intruder Michael Fagan: what happened and why did he break in?
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The 1851 Great Exhibition: inside the Victorian spectacle
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The real history behind Victorian thriller ‘The Limehouse Golem’
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The Globe theatre fire of 1613: when Shakespeare’s playhouse burned down
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Britain and the slave trade
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Coffee, plague and the Great Fire: the pleasures and perils of living in Restoration London
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Bethlem Royal Hospital: why did the infamous Bedlam asylum have such a fearsome reputation?
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