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Ancient Greece
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Who wrote the first thesaurus?
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“A useful time-capsule of Georgian life”: Samuel Johnson and his remarkable dictionary
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at 125: what can a vampire tell us about Victorian Britain?
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First World War
Benediction
: a case of Sassoon the man v Sassoon the legend
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Poetry and protest
WW1 poet Siegfried Sassoon
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Stasi poets: creative writing & the Cold War
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Despatches on dictators: US reporters in 1930s Europe
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Why we should remember…
the translation of Anne Frank’s diary
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Libraries: a book lover’s history
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Elizabethan
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Where is William Shakespeare buried – and is there a curse on his grave?
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The Northman
How the real Viking prince Amleth inspired Shakespeare
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Oxford: from wild student parties to the shadow of war
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The real three musketeers: the historical Athos, Porthos and Aramis (and d’Artagnan) revealed
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20 inspirational quotes from women through history
Georgian
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Who was the Grand Old Duke of York?
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