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Victorian
Life in the workhouse: everything you wanted to know
Victorian
The rise and fall of the workhouse
General Modern
The evolution of the British home: from the Georgian era to the present day
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Georgian
Jane Austen’s tips for “health and happiness”
Victorian
7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Charles Dickens and his family home
Victorian
Inside Osborne: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s island residence
Victorian
David Olusoga on house histories: “Our homes are often the sites of great dramas and tragedies”
Elizabethan
The house that Bess built: the secrets of Hardwick Hall
Victorian
A history of homelessness
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Second World War
Where did Adolf Hitler live? The homes of the führer and how they were used as Nazi propaganda
20th Century
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Have high-rises ever been the answer to our housing woes?
Tudor
8 of Britain’s best historical houses and gardens
20th Century
A decade of domesticity: how the 1950s made the modern home
Roman
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Five facts about Roman insulae
Victorian
Life in 19th-century slums: Victorian London’s homes from hell
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