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Every issue, picture editor Samantha Nott brings you a recipe from the past.

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BBC History Magazine

5 November 2015

BBC Wildlife Magazine

Birds that break the rules

Many birds have fabulous plumage to attract mates or send warning messages. Some of the colours in their feathers are produced by microscopic structures on the feather surface that absorb and reflect

Fortean Times

Letters

I once met a man who claimed he saw a huge black panther (circa 1990) near his farmhouse in Scotland. It had a pheasant in its mouth. He ran to get his shotgun but the creature had vanished. I knew th

All About History

The spanish crusader el cid

How a Castilian knight fought Christians and Muslims alike to become a national icon

The Big Issue

Tagging as folk practice

Reading the city sounds like something a psychogeographer might do, but in a sense we all do it whenever we move around, on foot or on wheels: route, encounter, diversion, disruption. That shop’s re-o

The TLS

Behind closed doors

The daughter of Gisèle Pelicot on the family’s ordeal

Best of British

Yesterday remembered

One day late in 1939, a small article appeared in our daily newspaper. It was submitted by the government and was an appeal for British women to knit socks for men in the army, which was unable to obt