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How did people learn to dance in Baroque and Regency times?
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"We decide for ourselves who we think we are – and museums are central to that"
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Louis Wain: the cat-loving artist who forever changed the way that we see our feline friends
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Emily Soldene: actress, writer, rebel
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7 facts about Robert Burns, Scotland’s national bard
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Did Britain really roar in the 1920s?
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The Beatles: 8 landmark moments that chart the changing face of sixties Britain
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Christmas carols: the history behind 9 festive favourites
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The surprisingly modern Middle Ages
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Josiah Wedgwood: the radical father of English pottery
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3 curious medieval ghost stories
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Ira Aldridge: Shakespeare’s black Othello
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