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George VI’s Nazi dilemma

Alexander Larman chronicles the king’s battles with fascist sympathisers in royal circles

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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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