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Witches
| Helen FosterEast Midlands Oral History ArchiveAsma Istwani
Many of the women persecuted as witches in the 16th-century “witch craze” were over 50 and exhibited signs of menopause. Helen Foster suggests that the stigma of the wicked witch still affects older women and how they deal with menopause.
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There’s more to gingerbread than ginger
| Mary-Anne Boermans
‘Bake-Off’ finalist Mary-Anne Boermans treats us to the warm and enticing pleasures of gingerbread over centuries.
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Would you like to buy a unicorn?
| Cassidy Phillips
The story behind why somebody tried to sell Henry Wellcome a unicorn head in 1928.
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History of condoms from animal to rubber
| Taryn Cain
Come on a journey from the first recorded condoms in the 16th century to the modern female condoms in the 1990s – and everything in between.