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George VI’s Nazi dilemma
Alexander Larman chronicles the king’s battles with fascist sympathisers in royal circles
Playing with the Tudors
From tick-tack to tennis, Nicholas Orme introduces the pastimes that kept children entertained in the 16th century
Debtors’ prisons
Alexander Wakelam asks why so many people were jailed for failing to pay their creditors in Georgian Britain
The infamous bushranger
Meg Foster tells the amazing story of “Black Douglas”: hard drinker, bandit, prize-fighter and reader of skulls
Victorian lady killers
Rosalind Crone explores the factors that drove women to commit murder in the 19th and early 20th centuries
Life under the Mongols
Nicholas Morton considers how the world changed for the peoples living in the empire of the khans
Birmingham’s finest?
Richard Vinen looks at how two clans – the Chamberlains and the Cadburys – left their mark on a city and a nation
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