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Georgian
Princess Charlotte of Wales: the original people’s princess
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Was the Regency era a good time to be a woman?
The truth not seen in Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story
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Royal enlightenment
The intellectual life of Queen Charlotte
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Force feeding the suffragettes
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The shocking image from Boston Marathon in 1967
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Art, culture and science in the Restoration period
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Scandalous sisters: how three French princesses brought down the Capetian dynasty
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Marriage, Middlemarch & male pseudonyms: George Eliot’s unconventional life
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Women & the crusades: patronage, propaganda & prayer
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Eleanor of Aquitaine’s female power network
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Madame Restell: the abortionist who shocked and fascinated 19th-century New York
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