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Scientists studying fossil bones found in a Spanish cave have suggested that early European cavemen ate human meat as part of their everyday diet. The conclusions were drawn after the site revealed the butchered remains of at least 11 human children...
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"It is difficult to go anywhere in London without having the feeling that Britain is now occupied territory,” George Orwell complained in December 1943. At that point, there were nearly one million American troops in Britain, and another...
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Capital Affairs interweaves a compelling story of sex, scandal and social change in 1950s London.
Frank Mort takes us on an evocative journey through a rapidly changing metropolis. In Soho we encounter prostitutes and wealthy men-about-town and...
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Explore a display of ancient Egyptian decorative art collected by Major William Joseph Myers during the second half of the 19th century. Among other objects, the exhibition features mummy masks, jewellery and pottery of the time, as well as...
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When the Spartans in 404 BC finally defeated Athens after a war lasting more than a quarter of a century, they installed an oligarchic government (‘The Thirty’). It was now a fair bet that the Athenian democratic experiment would come to...
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Inventory lists may sound pretty boring, mundane and run of the mill. But the ancient Greeks liked their lists and one of the most interesting kinds of list was the inventory list. These detailed all the objects that were held normally within a...
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Archaeologists may have solved the mystery of Rome’s famous disappearing Ninth Hispanic Legion after discovering a Roman ‘industrial estate’ during excavations underneath the A1 in North Yorkshire. The Ninth Legion was one of the...
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For Ken Dark, director of the University of Reading’s Research Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, what happened at the end of Roman Britain is probably the biggest unanswered question in British history during the first millennium...
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In Caesar’s Druids, Miranda Aldhouse-Green returns to a theme she has previously tackled, extending her consideration of it.
The druids are at once the most multifaceted and the most enigmatic cadre identifiable in the Iron Age societies of...
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In the debate over how to reduce our carbon emissions, much is made of areas like transport and power generation. But energy use in the home – which also has a substantial impact on emissions – has received less attention in policy-...
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When Oxford University Press produces a book with a title that suggests it will provide an overview of the contribution of mining to the shaping of modern Britain, it immediately attracts attention.
As the author notes, there is a vast existing...
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We all know what going to the theatre is like: You enter (most often) an indoor space, take your seat, the lights go down plunging the audience into darkness and the play begins, finishing (perhaps with an interval for ice cream) about two-and-a-...
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This is a brilliant idea that has become a brilliant book – whose full title reads Gardening Women: Their Stories from 1600 to the Present.
Dr Horwood brings not merely the enthusiasm of a redoubtable, hands-on gardener to the task, but also...
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Thousands of untouched documents, including letters, memos and reports between the Cardiff and Llanfyllin Poor Law Unions and the London workhouse boards, have gone online for the first time. The newly scanned catalogue, compiled by volunteers,...
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