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Urban animals: the growth of city farms in 20th-century Britain
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Tim Dunn chooses John Betjeman
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Is it true that Bluetooth was named after a Viking king?
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Lady killers: what 5 murder cases can reveal about the lives of women in the 19th and 20th centuries
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“The early 2000s was a strange era of fear and terror”: remembering the Iraq War 20 years on
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Monica Ali chooses Richard Burton
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Preservation of heritage sites: what happens in the aftermath of a catastrophe?
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