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Living starring Bill Nighy is an elegant film but it’s not a 1950s I recognise
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Living starring Bill Nighy is an elegant film but it’s not a 1950s I recognise

Top 5 food histories, chosen by Diane Purkiss
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Top 5 food histories, chosen by Diane Purkiss

Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce on Kim Philby drama: ‘You can have a lot of fun in the spy genre’
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Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce on Kim Philby drama: ‘You can have a lot of fun in the spy genre’

How Lisa Gray found magic in forgotten spools of mystery film
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How Lisa Gray found magic in forgotten spools of mystery film

Michael Morpurgo on War Horse turning 40: ‘There will be no future without peace’
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Michael Morpurgo on War Horse turning 40: ‘There will be no future without peace’

Fighting the shameful legacy of colonialism in the Chagos Islands
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Fighting the shameful legacy of colonialism in the Chagos Islands

Sorry, I Didn’t Know: ‘This show is decorating Black history with humour’
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Sorry, I Didn’t Know: ‘This show is decorating Black history with humour’

Katyń: The forgotten massacre of World War II
Books

Katyń: The forgotten massacre of World War II

JB Mylet: A dark history of orphanages and a mother’s childhood secret
Books

JB Mylet: A dark history of orphanages and a mother’s childhood secret

The secret Nazi camps of Finnish Lapland
Books

The secret Nazi camps of Finnish Lapland

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History is one of the most original queer history books of recent years
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Bad Gays: A Homosexual History is one of the most original queer history books of recent years

A surprising dark secret in Dartmoor prison
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A surprising dark secret in Dartmoor prison

Chad Orzel: What happened to history’s missing 10 days?
Books

Chad Orzel: What happened to history’s missing 10 days?

The Disappearance of Josef Mengele review: A post-Holocaust hunt for the Angel of Death
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The Disappearance of Josef Mengele review: A post-Holocaust hunt for the Angel of Death

Epic Annette: A life of resistance and remarkable courage
Books

Epic Annette: A life of resistance and remarkable courage

How Herbert Ponting captured Scott’s doomed Antarctic expedition
Books

How Herbert Ponting captured Scott’s doomed Antarctic expedition

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Author Scott Anderson on the last CIA survivor of the Cold War
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Author Scott Anderson on the last CIA survivor of the Cold War

How Henry Dunant, founder of the Red Cross, staged his own rehabilitation
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How Henry Dunant, founder of the Red Cross, staged his own rehabilitation

‘Evil’ or ‘planet struck’: How the curious ways we described deaths in the past shaped how we live now
Andrew Doig

‘Evil’ or ‘planet struck’: How the curious ways we described deaths in the past shaped how we live now

UK’s first Black bookshop hopes crowdfunder will save it from closure
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UK’s first Black bookshop hopes crowdfunder will save it from closure