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Title | Date published | ||
Women Warriors: From Boudicca to Ukrainian Snipers | 2023-06-30 | ||
Stonewall Uprising: Liberation & Mafia Exploitation | 2023-06-27 | ||
History of Camp: From Oscar Wilde to James Bond | 2023-06-23 | ||
Dick Pics: The History | 2023-06-20 | ||
Shakespeare's Sex Life | 2023-06-16 | ||
Anne Lister: The First Modern Lesbian? | 2023-06-13 | ||
Victorian Pregnancy & Childbirth: The Untold History | 2023-06-09 | ||
The Pre-Raphaelites: Art & Sexual Liberation | 2023-06-06 | ||
A History of Queer Women | 2023-06-02 | ||
The Rise of Celebrity Culture | 2023-05-30 | ||
The Giggling Granny serial killer | 2023-05-26 | ||
The Real Queen Charlotte | 2023-05-23 | ||
Molly Houses | 2023-05-19 | ||
Murder in the Roman World | 2023-05-16 | ||
Witch Hunts of Scotland | 2023-05-12 | ||
Perfume | 2023-05-09 | ||
Coronation Fashion: Crowns, Orbs & Pubic Wigs | 2023-05-05 | ||
Incest | 2023-05-02 | ||
Pop's Golden Era: Success & Scandal | 2023-04-28 | ||
Human Emotion | 2023-04-25 |