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Not Just An Old Chestnut
BIT OF HISTORY Paths From Places That Give Us A Sense of Place To Places That Don't
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The Princess's Present
A BIT OF HISTORY Random Stuff From Annette's Collection: A Crowdfunded Royal Gift for Millions
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Cruel To Be Kind? Or Kinda Cruel?
BIT OF HISTORY Random Stuff From Annette's Collection: Managing People With Little Wooden Blocks
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Shoulder to Shoulder
BIT OF HISTORY An Inappropriate Book for a Child
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A Two Hundred Year Old Food "Stamp"
A BIT OF HISTORY Random Stuff From Annette's Collection: A Lasting Reminder of Changing Attitudes Toward the Poor on Both Sides of the Atlantic
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Cigarettes Sell Royalty Sell Cigarettes
BIT OF HISTORY An Unusual Coronation Souvenir Sells the Royal Family with Packets of Cigarettes
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No Monopoly on Monopoly
BIT OF HISTORY What Distinguishes This Monopoly Board from Others? (No, It Doesn't Guarantee There Won't Be Upset Losers)
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A Spoon From A Fork in 1939
A BIT OF HISTORY: An Immigrant Family Make a Return Visit Home to Scotland from New York on the Eve of WWII, Bringing a Little Gift with Big Meaning.
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Flying the Blue Peter Flag
BIT OF HISTORY Random Stuff from Annette's Collection: A 50 Year Old TV Tie-In Book, The Show It Was Written For, and Non-Boring History
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A Green Bottle From Before Going Green Was Cool
BIT OF HISTORY Random Objects from Annette's Collection: The Codd Bottle, A Brilliant Recyclable Green(ish) Glass Bottle from Long Before Anyone Heard…
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The Stamp Tax That's Still With Us
BIT OF HISTORY Random Stuff from Annette's Collection: An 18th Century document is boring even to this historian, until she holds it in her hands.
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A Lifesaving Racket
BIT OF HISTORY Random Stuff From Annette's Collection: A Joyful Noisemaker With A Very Frightening Past
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