The Friday Digest 03/07/15

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This week's update features history, safe spaces and comfort zones, medieval graffiti and ten pairs of shoes that changed the world. 

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* The release of archived criminal records which allows you to check for a 'black sheep' in your family tree. 

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* Britain's seven most amazing ruins.

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* Fifty human rights cases that transformed Britain. 

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* Medieval graffiti: the lost voices of England’s churches in the Middle Ages.

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* History, safe spaces and comfort zones ... 

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* The exhibition which has captured fifty years of life in North East England.  

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* Manchester's Whitworth has been named as Museum of the Year 2015 following a £15 million redevelopment that led to record visitor numbers to the art gallery. 

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* The 'quiet revolution' of the home pregnancy test. 

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* 'I used to lead tours at a plantation. You won’t believe the questions I got about slavery.'

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* Peter Jackson misses The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings so much that he's built Bilbo Baggins' home in his basement ... 

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* A side of Abraham Lincoln you may not have seen before. 

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* Shocking images of the Vietnam War. 

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* Should we stop psychoanalysing Nixon? 

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* The Yale Grammatical Diversity Project tracks the use of North American English. 

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* Some hilarious style advice from the 1950s ... 

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* Fashion victims: history’s most dangerous trends. 

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* Ten pairs of shoes that changed the world.  

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* 100 years of Maybelline ads show how little has changed in beauty ... 

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* Five women cut from pop culture history for being too important. 

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* The 1960s icons that could save music ... 

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* Hokusai and the wave that swept the world. 

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* Two self-portraits by Francis Bacon kept hidden in a private collection for many years sold for a combined £30 million at a sale at Sotheby's in London.

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* The twenty-first century’s twelve greatest novels.  

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* The crisis in non-fiction publishing. 

* Ten nouns that are always plural. 

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* Detective duos in fiction.  

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* Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller has won this year's Desmond Elliott Prize for first novels.