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5 Thrifty WWII Recipes That Fed a Nation

Warning: may contain carrots!

Jade Revell in The History Edit

5 Historic British Foods With Weird Names…

…still eaten today

Jade Revell in The History Edit

5 Weird Historical Foods From Around The World…

… still eaten today

Jade Revell in The History Edit

The Colour of Death: Scheele’s Green

The poisonous tint that created Victorian fashion victims

Jade Revell in The History Edit

The King’s Cookbook

The surprisingly sophisticated dishes of a late Middle Ages recipe collection

Jade Revell in The History Edit

The Death Mask of the Parisienne Mona Lisa: L’Inconnue de la Seine

From the Paris morgue to CPR…

Jade Revell in The History Edit

6 Bizarre Deaths of Historical Figures

From the turnip to the sublime

Jade Revell in The History Edit

Cursed! A Strange History of the Hope Diamond

Curse or coincidence?

Jade Revell in The History Edit

How One King’s Trailblazing Rule Led to Henry VIII’s Ultimate Power

The interlinked reigns of Richard…

Jade Revell in The History Edit

Olympians to Tapeworms: Fitness and Diet Fads Through History

2000 years of watching the scales

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