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Sneezing, smells and noses

The profound effects of losing our sense of smell, why historians should think more about the...

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Linda Grant and Jewish history

A Baltic forest in 1913, Soho and the suburbs of Liverpool and the Jewish community that grows up...

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Mermaids, Caribbean tales and copyright

Disney's The Little Mermaid and a musical adaptation of a Caribbean version of the story kick off...

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Essex

Thanks in part to the birth of those enduring caricatures - Essex Man & Essex Girl - in the...

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Rocky Horror and camp

Premiered to 63 people at the Royal Court back in 1973, the Rocky Horror Show is marking its...

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Zimbabwean writing

A '70s London squat was home to the writer Dambudzo Marechera when he was writing his first novel...

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Agoraphobia

"Not so much a fear of going out as a fear of something dreadful happening whilst being out" -...

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Mountaineering, Lizzie Le Blond, sport and science

Overcoming grief, historian Rachel Hewitt's new book mixes recent personal history and her...

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Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe

650 years since the visions of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe's birth in King's Lynn, two...

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Kingship and ceremony

Luxury and Power is the title of a new British Museum exhibition focusing on the politics of...

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Sidney Poitier

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) tackled inter-racial relationships. In the Heat of the Night...

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Sound, conflict and central heating

Recordings in sub-zero temperatures and the hottest day on record have fed into the sound of...

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Lady Antonia Fraser

From Mary Queen of Scots - about whom her mother was going to write until she intervened - to her...

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Queen Charlotte, fashion and music

Music making, fashion and behaviour at court in the Georgian period are the focus of new research...

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Hilma af Klint

As a new Tate exhibition of paintings puts the work of Swedish painter Hilma af Klint alongside...

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New Thinking: Fashion, sustainability and Earth Day

From unboxing and influencers to circular fashion and a new artwork unveiled for Earth Day: New...

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Tartan, Kidnapped and Highland writing

Stevenson's swashbuckling Jacobite set novel has been translated into a play which is touring...

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Galatea and Shakespeare

John Lyly's play Galatea, first recorded in 1588, inspired Shakespeare to write As You Like It...

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Caruso, Elsie Houston, Peter Brathwaite

The singers Enrico Caruso and Elsie Houston, a new opera at ENO and links between musical and...

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Land and soil politics

From nature as "a living whole" in the ideas of Goethe and Alexander von Humboldt to the "Blood...

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