Sex and love

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Top 10 strange history stories

Ivory figurine of a loving couple, Chinese.

Historical sex objects to feature in classrooms

An illustration of King Henry VIII and his six wives

The hidden lives of Henry VIII’s six wives

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Viking treasures and Hitler’s ‘perfect woman’ . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, speaking at a Nazi rally in 1936. (Photo by ullstein bild / ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Second World War

When Hitler’s perfect woman came to call

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Did Robin Hood have a love interest before Maid Marian?

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Top 5 Jane Austen recipes . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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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’

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

Illustration by Femke De Jong

The generational shift from home births to hospitals

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

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

Where history happened: Jane Austen . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

‘Portrait of a Lady’ by Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden, c1460. From the collection of the National Gallery, London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Medieval underwear: bras, pants and lingerie in the Middle Ages

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The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution