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From rations to ready meals: the transformation of the nation’s diet
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The duchy of Aquitaine: an English ‘colony’ in deepest France
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Did the druids have anything to do with Stonehenge?
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What was 'pigging'?
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Why do we have the letters 'FD' on our coins?
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The Victorians’ grisly fascination with murder
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