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Amazing Grace author’s slavery confession found ‘hidden in plain sight’

A harrowing anonymous account by an 18th-century slave trader...

Beer guzzled in gallons by Tudor workers ‘as strong as modern lager’

Perhaps it's not surprising that the Elizabethan playwright Thomas...

DNA sheds light on Beethoven’s death but raises questions about his birth

In 1802, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote a letter in which he asked his brothers to request that Dr Johann Adam Schmidt make details of his...

‘Farewell and go courageously into life!’ — Holocaust letters revealed

In September 1942, a Jewish couple, Maria and Maximilian...

Six-inch ‘tool’ found at Roman fort was likely erotic aid

An artefact unearthed at Vindolanda fort, just south of...

Medals of 40-victory WW1 British ace go on sale

The medals of a First World War British fighter ace...

Scores of secret letters from Mary, Queen of Scots, discovered by codebreakers

The surprise discovery of nearly 60 coded letters written...

Anglo-Saxon treasures unveiled at new Lindisfarne museum

A "stunningly beautiful" glass gaming piece from Anglo-Saxon Northumbria...

Regency job ads reveal servants’ skilful pursuit of travel and adventure

The 1825 manual The Complete Servant warned its readers that the...

Quaker abolitionist’s unseen anti-slavery archive to go under the hammer

The previously unseen papers of a tireless Quaker anti-slavery...

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