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There’s more to gingerbread than ginger

‘Bake-Off’ finalist Mary-Anne Boermans treats us to the warm and enticing pleasures of gingerbread over centuries.

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A body apart from the head

We look back at the importance of the head, from how it’s influenced our language to the bold political statement of having it removed.

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Guide dogs or good dogs from the Middle Ages

Medieval illustrations often show blind people, sometimes with dogs. But working out whether these were actually guide dogs involves a mix of detailed detective work and expert speculation.

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The work of wet-nursing

Many of us know that in the past, babies were sometimes nourished by wet-nurses. But, perhaps surprisingly, the practice continues today – and the milk recipients are not only babies.

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  • Mr. Ruspini, earnestly recommends the following short observations to the perusal of the nobility, gentry, and others / [Bartholomew Ruspini].
  • Mr. Ruspini, earnestly recommends the following short observations to the perusal of the nobility, gentry, and others / [Bartholomew Ruspini].
  • Mr. Ruspini, earnestly recommends the following short observations to the perusal of the nobility, gentry, and others / [Bartholomew Ruspini].
  • Mr. Ruspini, earnestly recommends the following short observations to the perusal of the nobility, gentry, and others / [Bartholomew Ruspini].
  • Mr. Ruspini, earnestly recommends the following short observations to the perusal of the nobility, gentry, and others / [Bartholomew Ruspini].
  • Mr. Ruspini, earnestly recommends the following short observations to the perusal of the nobility, gentry, and others / [Bartholomew Ruspini].
  • Mr. Ruspini, earnestly recommends the following short observations to the perusal of the nobility, gentry, and others / [Bartholomew Ruspini].
  • The mirrour of true nobility & gentility. Being the life of the renowned Nicolaus Claudius Fabricius Lord of Peiresk ... / Englished by W. Rand.
  • The mirrour of true nobility & gentility. Being the life of the renowned Nicolaus Claudius Fabricius Lord of Peiresk ... / Englished by W. Rand.
  • Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain / Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility and the public collections of the country. With biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions, by Edmund Lodge.
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