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The age of noodles: Momofuku Ando and the rise of ramen in post-war Japan

How did pasta come to Europe and when did it first become established in Italy?

25 October

Ira Aldridge: Shakespeare’s black Othello

Egyptian pharaohs: everything you wanted to know

24 October

Medieval ghost stories

23 October

Q&A What was clog fighting?

How dogs shaped city life

22 October

Quiz Which historic figure should you choose for your Halloween costume?

7 weird and wonderful Georgian beauty treatments

Gulielma Lister: the female botanist who became the queen of slime moulds

What is the history behind the Celtic festival of Samhain and what does it have to do with Halloween?

Beans, ale & 'windy meats': surprising 17th-century aphrodisiacs

21 October

Paranormal cold case Alanbrooke Hall, Belfast

African-American women’s battle for the vote

The price of beauty: the dangerous cosmetics used until the 20th century

“A spotlight on historic societal misogyny and disbelief of women”: what The Last Duel gets right and wrong

Supernatural stories: 9 unusual British folktales

Second World War

Germany’s naked truth: the 19th-century nudism movements co-opted by the Nazis

20 October