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The Plimsoll Line: How Samuel Plimsoll Made Sailing Safer

Victorian

How Polluting Shipwrecks Imperil the Oceans

20th Century

How Cutty Sark Became the Fastest Sail-Powered Cargo Ship Ever Built

Victorian

Why Did Elizabethan Merchants Start Weighing Their Coins?

Early Modern

‘Old Coppernose’: Henry VIII and the Great Debasement

Early Modern

The Royal Mint: Isaac Newton and the Trial of the Pyx Plate

Revolutions

How Henry VII Used English Coinage to Project Power

Early Modern

The Royal Mint: Oliver Cromwell’s Depiction as a Roman Emperor

Early Modern

The Royal Mint: Edward VIII’s Unreleased Coins

20th Century

A Timeline of Feudal Japan’s ‘Nanban’ Trade with Europeans

Early Modern

Mac and Cheese in 1736? The Stories of Kensington Palace’s Servants

Georgian

The Peasants’ Revolt: Rise of the Rebels

Medieval