Sex and love

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Did Robin Hood have a love interest before Maid Marian?

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First World War

Revealed: love letters from First and Second World War soldiers

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Revealed: the wills of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen

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Second World War

Sexual relations with PoWs sparked fears of immorality

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Top 5 Jane Austen recipes

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Should we rewrite Jane Austen’s classic novels?

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Painting ‘reveals Walter Ralegh’s secret desire for Elizabeth I’

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Singer Kelly Clarkson loses bid to keep Jane Austen ring

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Celibacy ‘bitterly contested in 11th century’

In 1926, a time of social and political strife, the country unified in celebrating the birth of Princess Elizabeth. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

6 royal births that rocked a nation

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The generational shift from home births to hospitals

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An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

A Pompeian fresco from the first century showing a woman tuning a musical instrument. Excavations at the partially buried Roman city reveal that women played a prominent role in the home, and that they took personal grooming very seriously indeed. (Photo by: Werner Forman/UIG via Getty Images)

At home with the Romans

A portrait of Jane Austen. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Where history happened: Jane Austen

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Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj