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Reforms to divorce law inevitably prompt moral panic as they did in Victorian England.

Were the fifties a dull decade? Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s by Virginia Nicholson has the answer.

The Loch Ness Monster’s first appearance on film captured both the hype and the scepticism surrounding cinema’s newest star.

Second-hand books don’t just tell the stories of their authors but of their former owners, too.