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Jul 23
Poetry in Stone
An unusual sample in an electronic album leads to a trail to 15th century France and…
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Mike Noble
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Mar 5
The Fish-eating U-boat Hunter
The First World War was a desperate conflict, but how desperate? Grab a…
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Mike Noble
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Jan 9
The Franz Müller Incident
How the first murder on the British railway led to a transatlantic chase…
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Mike Noble
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Dec 25, 2023
‘About eleven o’clock, I saw a Christmas tree going up on the German trenches. And there was a light’
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Mike Noble
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Mar 2, 2019
The Lone Ranger and America
The lean years of the Great Depression were a fruitful time for the…
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Mike Noble
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Oct 24, 2018
The Great Vinegar Flood
The HP Sauce factory was a beloved part of Aston’s industrial landscape, but…
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Mike Noble
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May 29, 2018
When Pistol Duels were Fought at the Olympic Games
The decline of duelling coincided with the rise of…
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Mike Noble
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May 21, 2018
When the British Government Tried to Combat Gin…With Beer
When nineteenth century Britons took too keen a liking for gin the government found a novel method for weaning them off it. It didn’t exactly go…
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Apr 25, 2018
The Golden Age of Armed Robbery
For a brief period in the late twentieth century, the figure of the armed bank robber was a staple of TV police dramas. Where did they go?
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Mike Noble
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Apr 9, 2018
Humbug Billy and the Great Poisoned Sweets Scandal of 1858
In 1858, a Bradford sweetmaker decided to cut a few corners. What happened next left twenty people dead and over two hundred seriously ill.
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