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Trace your house history like David Olusoga on A House Through Time

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Irish ancestry. Farmers in Glenshesk, County Atrim, c. 1900

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An operation in a lecture theatre at University College Hospital Medical School, London, in 1898

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Hopscotch Inn: The Work Of The Save The Children Fund In Wartime London, England, UK, 1944

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