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Third wife to Henry VIII, and mother of Edward VI, it’s easy to see why Jane Seymour played such an integral part in the history of the Tudor dynasty. But who was this otherwise unassuming woman and ...

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Also known as the ‘Golden Square outbreak’, the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak remains one of the most important events in the history of public health, health geography and epidemiology. In 1854, ...

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founding father of the modern ...