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The Index Librorum Prohibitorum

Over a million Belgian refugees and thousands of British soldiers fled to the neutral Netherlands.

Marking World Breastfeeding Week

Celebrating Yorkshire Day with five facts about the UK's largest county

Books didn’t always have title pages

Migration and new life experiences

The fascinating folklore of mermaids

Warfare in an emerging geopolitical landscape

A look at an album of Victorian-era photographs from the James Gardiner Collection

Creating a home abroad

Migration stories and objects

A Serbian prisoner of war during World War One

Establishing marriages with other powerful houses in order to expand and stabilize power.

Korngold, Weigl and Krenek in the United States

How text has influenced how, what and why we read

The life and works of the influential composer Richard Wagner

War brought pain and people together who may never have otherwise met.

New connections and relationships would not have been possible without people moving across the globe

Stories of romance and love at the time of World War

New perspectives on John Burke