December 2021 (Issue 101)

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Portrait of Jane Cowan.

My life in history Head of conservation at Lincoln Cathedral . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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RJCT32 A 1930's domestic kitchen/dining room in the back to back housing at the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley, West Midlands, England, UK

Danny Robin's paranormal cold cases A Walthamstow folk demon . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

George Orwell is known to have made numerous broadcasts for the BBC during his career at the corporation, but no recordings have survived. Early radio was treated as a live medium, with broadcasts rarely kept for posterity. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Your guide to George Orwell and his visions of dystopia

A mushroom cloud rises into the sky above Enewetak Atoll

The mystery of the missing H-bomb paper

Domenico Fetti painting illustrating a melancholic woman in the early 17th century

The Anatomy of Melancholy: how Robert Burton helped shape our understanding of the mind

Colour illustration of people gathering outside a church during the Middle Ages

The medieval church: your guide to religion and worship in the Middle Ages