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Beyond the podcast: Jane Austen

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Sex, slavery and royal scandal: how Jane Austen's novels exposed a darker side of Georgian Britain.

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Beyond the podcast: Pompeii

Portrait of Jane Austen as a young woman.

The real reason Jane Austen never married

Second World War

Beyond the podcast: Nuremberg

Beyond the podcastThe Gunpowder plot

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Becoming Jane Austen.

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Gulbadan Begum: the Mughal Jane Austen.

Jane Austen's grave.

Lupus or murder?What was Jane Austen's cause of death?

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Everything you wanted to know about Jane Austen's England.

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Reading between the lines: the real-life events that inspired Jane Austen.

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