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Samurai rose to be global emblems of honour and courage, but their story doesn’t always match the myths they told about themselves, as a British Museum exhibition shows

Once the reserve of mud-caked public schoolboys, the rugby shirt is now a bona fide sartorial superstar, embraced by outfitters across the globe,

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‘Green sickness’, also known as the ‘disease of virgins’ – a diagnosis applied mainly to teenage girls from the 16th to the 19th centuries – is one of the most puzzling conditions in the history of me

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