History
The Middle Ages tend to get an unfair reputation when it comes to hygiene. Say the words “medieval Europe,” and most people imagine a…
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Food
Corned beef is one of those culinary relics that sounds like it should involve sweetcorn but absolutely doesn’t. No kernels, no maize, not even…
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History
Somewhere between Scotland and Northern Ireland, beneath a deceptively peaceful patch of the Irish Sea, lies one of Britain’s most unsettling secrets. Beaufort’s Dyke…
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History
Zeus never believed in minimalism. While mortals were struggling to manage one household and a few squabbling kids, the king of the gods was…
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History
Heinrich Schliemann was the kind of man who made history by accident and controversy by design. He didn’t start out planning to dig up…
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History
Once upon a gilded time at Versailles, where powdered wigs weighed more than moral integrity and chandeliers outshone common sense, a young woman from…
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History
If you ever think your skincare routine takes too long, imagine being a Roman. Two thousand years ago, people in togas were already obsessing…
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History
Once upon a time, in a palace so gilded it could make a Kardashian weep, there lived a teenage girl from Vienna who was…
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History
The White House looks so peaceful these days — all gleaming neoclassical symmetry, a bit of manicured lawn, the occasional squirrel doing its best…
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Britain
They called her the Iron Lady. Not because she pumped iron, or because she had a fondness for cast-iron teapots, but because Margaret Thatcher…
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