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Dance's Historical Miscellany

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a woman in possession of a love of history, must be in want of a blog.

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Top Posts

  • Painted faces: cosmetics in the 18th century
  • Circassia, home of the world's most beautiful women
  • Soap, cleanliness, and imperialism
  • Historical portraits of people and their pets
  • The Münster rebellion: the creation of a 16th-century theocracy
  • A history of Bedlam, the world's most notorious asylum
  • Creole women in the British imagination
  • Sir Thomas Lawrence and the Romantic portrait
  • "This murdering play": the violent origins of English football
  • 17th-century courting advice
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