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David Bowie and Twiggy

David Bowie’s life in pictures

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie in profile: facts about her life

Prohibition protesters parade in a car emblazoned with signs and flags calling for the repeal of the 18th Amendment, which outlawed the production and consumption of alcohol in the United States. (Archive Photos/Getty Images)

“A great social experiment”: a brief guide to prohibition

A poster for Terence Fisher's 1958 horror 'Dracula'

From Dracula to The Historian: 5 gothic novels that reflected the anxieties of their age

The opening of the Great Exhibition by Queen Victoria on 1 May 1851. (The Print Collector/Getty Images)

“A wonder of the world”: Queen Victoria opens the Great Exhibition at the famous Crystal Palace

Colour portrait of Jane Austen

8 things you (probably) didn’t know about Jane Austen

Tourists at Stonehenge

General prehistory

Stonehenge: a prehistoric tourist trap

British mystery writer Agatha Christie, c1926. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The mysterious disappearance of Agatha Christie

British writer Roald Dahl

Second World War

11 things you might not know about Roald Dahl

The ninth-century Alfred Jewel, adorned with the inscription: "Alfred ordered me to be made". This masterpiece of Anglo-Saxon art is thought to have been an aestel, a pointer used to follow text. (Picture by Alamy)

10 ways the Anglo-Saxons changed the course of British history

Actress Sarah Bernhardt, who was personally invited by Oscar Wilde to play the title role in the upcoming London premiere of his play, 'Salomé'.

6 of London theatre’s most notable historical scandals

Illustration by Davide Bonazzi

The big question: should museums return their treasures?

Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh presented by Viking Cruises opens at the Saatchi Gallery on 2 November. Tickets on-sale now, please visit: www.tutankhamun-london.com

Treasures of Tutankhamun

One of many historic sites in Luxembourg. Larochette's castle dominates the town below.

Travel to Luxembourg: rural beauty and Gothic grandeur

Photo of a gramophone

Q&A Who do we say 'put a sock in it'?