untold story
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In 18th-century London, a ‘monster’ was stalking the streets and stabbing women
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The story of an Indian ayah who fought her British employers in court in 1826 – and won
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What the man in Pompeii clutching himself was actually doing when Vesuvius erupted 2,000 years ago
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‘A grand new palace of administration’: When Britain’s India Office got a new address in 1867
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19th-century letters between two sisters reveal early records of avian life in Madras
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Remembering Har Gobind Khorana, the chemist who overcame poverty to win the Nobel Prize
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In the 1830s, children from orphan asylums in Madras were sent to New South Wales
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The diary of a Dutch East India Company soldier who was marooned on a desert island
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In the 1760s, a sailor from Bengal was sentenced to death after a string of robberies in England
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When the East India Company sent an agent to spy on the French in Istanbul
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The forgotten history of the teenage immigrant who invented Durex condoms
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Glimpses from the life of an 18th century English merchant who made a fortune selling salt in Bengal