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Vod Margarette Lincoln - Perfection WL

Video podcast False rumps & rotten teeth: 400 years of bizarre beauty practices . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A man helps his partner to dress by lacing her whalebone corset.

Victorian corsets Dangerous or misunderstood?

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1939: A shop assistant working at the cash desk in a Ladies Hosiery department store in Birmingham. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Beauty before durability: the interwar beginnings of fast fashion . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Two women examining a corset

A bodice-ripping revolution: how Victorian women cast off deadly fashion trends . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Louis XVI wearing a red Phrygian bonnet of the Revolution. (Photo by Photo12/UIG/Getty Images)

General ancient history

The Phrygian cap: how did an item of ancient headgear become a symbol of liberty?

Bridgerton. (L to R) Hannah Dodd as Francesca Bridgerton, Nicola Coughlan as Penelope Featherington in episode 301 of Bridgerton. Cr. Laurence Cendrowicz/Netflix © 2024

From balls to Bridgerton: a brief history of debutantes and the social season

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HEXAcademy Elizabethan WK1 QUIZ

Elizabethans quiz – week one . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Anne de Courcy WL

Chanel: glamour and controversy on the Riviera . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cast of The New Look

Is The New Look a true story? The real history behind the period drama

Juliette Banoche as Coco Chanel in 'The New Look' and the real Coco Chanel.

Did Coco Chanel collaborate with the Nazis during WW2?

Christian Dior (Ben Mendelsohn) in 'The New Look' and the real Christian Dior.

The real Christian Dior: who was the man behind The New Look, and did he make dresses for Nazi wives?

Catherine Dior (Maisie Williams) in The New Look and the real Catherine Dior.

From French resistance to fashion heir: who was the real Catherine Dior?

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Shelley Tobin

My life in history Costume curator for the National Trust . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ladies in Tudor costume in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. (Photo by Steve Vidler via Alamy)

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Tudor fashion

Vintage photograph of a gentleman from the Victorian era c1880 with a bushy moustache.

General History

A hairy history of the moustache