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It will begin by focusing on Olaudah Equiano, one of the most famous Black abolitionists of the 18th Century, whose powerful ...

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The British architect has built an unprecedented factory of fine design. Inside the world of the man who creates exquisite ...

And so, in a particularly heavy-handed manner, the Thirteen Club layered superstition upon superstition in an attempt to debunk the idea that broken mirrors, spilled salt and walking under ladders ...

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Archive footage ... Getty Images George Robey - the "prime minister of mirth" - in the characters of pantomime's Goody Two Shoes (left) and sensible Victorian Oscar Wilde was not alone in wanting ...

“In the 1880s and 1890s there was this very vibrant bare-knuckle boxing scene in the East End of London and there was also the emergence of what we now recognise as boxing with boxing gloves and ...

Scotland Yard’s Victorian history is a captivating tale of law enforcement evolution and forensic science breakthroughs. Simon Read, author of Scotland Yard: A History of the London Police Force ...