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Biographies
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft was born on 27 April 1759 in Spitalfields, London, an area known at the time for its mix…
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Disasters
The Great Chicago Fire
By the autumn of 1871, Chicago was a booming city that had grown faster than its own common sense. In…
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History
The History of Social Media
Social media did not begin with profiles, photos, or algorithms. Its roots lie in far earlier networked systems created for communication between engineers, academics, and hobbyists, long before the public internet existed. The first recognisable…
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Murder
The Moors Murders
The Moors Murders emerged from a Britain that was still reshaping itself after the Second World War. By the late…
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Mysteries
The Disappearance of Dorothy Arnold
Dorothy Harriet Camille Arnold was born in 1885 into one of New York’s most wealthy and socially connected families. Her…
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Warfare
The Battle of the Somme
By the end of 1915, the First World War had ground itself into a stalemate that nobody had planned for, and nobody knew how to escape. The Western Front stretched from the North Sea to…
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