Money

Nurses serve lunch to patients at a Birmingham hospital, 1939. (Photo by Humphrey Spender/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Paying for healthcare: life in Britain before the ‘free’ NHS

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The Library How King Henry I made and blew a fortune

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Do we really live in a less charitable society than 50 years ago?

While young ladies may have been daydreaming of handsome film stars such as Cary Grant, pictured here kissing the cheek of Ingrid Bergman in a publicity still for the 1946 film ‘Notorious’, agony aunts were keen to bring them back down to earth. (Photo by John Springer Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

How to be a man: tips from 1930s agony aunts

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First World War

Money, love and revenge: the motivations of spies through history

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How did Henry VII spend his money?

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Myth-making and belonging: the coins of the Roman provinces

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A brief history of Harrods

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Bribes, gifts and scandal: 7 stories of corruption that shocked Britain

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The French ballerina who became wealthier than Queen Victoria

Jubilant miners display a large gold nugget during the Klondike Gold Rush, c1897. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Library The deadly gold rush

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Operation Gold Rush with Dan Snow

Roman silver denarius coins AD 72 till 200 and were offered up at the beginning of the 4th century AD, from the Nydan Bog archaeological site. (Photo by Clare Rowan)

From bes to Bitcoin: alternative currencies in the ancient Roman world

Adolf Hitler (left) and his interpreter (centre) talking to Spanish leader Francisco Franco. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/US Army Signal Corps/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Second World War

The Library Hitler’s fury, Franco’s guile and the bribe that saved the world

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In pictures: history’s most remarkable banknotes