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Sex and love

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Second World War heroes ‘had most sex appeal’

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Mistresses through history: the term wasn’t always about secret sex

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In pictures Victorian Valentine's Cards

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Love and marriage in Tudor England

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Ancient Egypt

From loincloths to corsets: a brief history of underwear with Horrible Histories’ Greg Jenner

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Ancient Greece

Christianity’s rocky relationship with sex

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Tudor

Love & Romance Week: the latest

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Tudor

Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn: Suzannah Lipscomb dispels myths about the lovers who changed history

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Pin-up girls through history – in pictures

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A Tudor-Stewart marriage: oak chest wedding gift for James IV and Margaret Tudor discovered

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Inside the mind of Richard III

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Tudor

Q&A Which of Henry VIII’s wives was his best match?

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Revealed: Jane Austen’s country life

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Revealed: the British First World War officer who married a nurse who wanted him dead

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Tudor

Top 10 strange history stories

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