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• Daily Express :: History2026-10-14✓ Read

  National Trust takes ownership of London’s oldest restaurant in £11m gift

  34-35 Maiden Lane, home of Rules since 1798 and beloved of Dickens and Churchill, is first building in Trust's care to house still operating historic restaurant

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• Daily Express :: History2026-10-11✓ Read

  Victoria Cross of hero killed alongside famous WW1 poet is sold

  A medal born in a last stand beside a famous poet just resurfaced in a quiet sale, but the number it drew feels like someone put a price on grief.

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• Daily Express :: History2026-10-11✓ Read

  The WW2 heroes who spent years on ‘floating bombs’ stopping UK from starving

  Around 33,000 Norwegian sailors served the Allies under Nazi attack. Yet while many died and others were left traumatised, their heroism was largely ignored.

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• Daily Express :: History2026-10-10✓ Read

  I'm a TV historian and these are my top five castles

  As Dan Jones releases a book about fortifications across the centuries, he talks British politics, his shock health scare and writing a James Bond novella

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• Daily Express :: History2026-10-07✓ Read

  Essex town with origins tracing back to a very lucrative spice trade

  Lesser known past of Saffron Walden lends the setting for a gripping new historical thriller from a bestselling author

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