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Different ways of dying across the British Isles

William Home and Robert Chamberlyn, the churchwardens of the parish of Wootton, near Woodstock in Oxfordshire, were summoned to appear at a church court in 1584. Their offence was that they had taken

For many, the 1960s were an exciting time to be alive. Yet the changes that defined this decade could also be unsettling. Everyone knows about the Cold War, UFOs, the music, the fashion… and the lepre

Paris, France 1889 -present

The dandy’s role as icon and irritant

Today, clogs are mainly associated with the north of England, but this hard-wearing, affordable footwear was common across Britain from Victorian times right through World War Two. With a shaped woode