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Have you ever watched a Marx Brothers film and wondered what 'habeas Irish rose' is? What is the trial of Mary Dugan with sound? What is a college ...

Jane Austen is one of Britains best loved authors and this beautifully illustrated guide to her novels, released to commemorate the 200th anniversa...

It was an 'open and shut' case. Hawley Harvey Crippen, an American quack doctor, had murdered his wife, the music hall performer Belle Elmore, and ...

Egyptomania, the West's obsession with the strange and magnificent world of Ancient Egypt, has for centuries been reflected in architecture, lit...

Groucho Marx's career as a solo performer began long before the Marx Brothers and lasted almost until the end of his life, with a series of cont...