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The Fisk Jubilee Singers began their first national tour 155 years ago #OnThisDay
Three years later they would tour Britain, singing songs that confronted American racism. Victorian audiences had never heard music like it.
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In this week’s newsletter: it has been 60 years since the Aberfan disaster, but memories of corporate failings and injustice persist.
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Surgeons trying to eliminate pain eventually arrived at anaesthesia – but not before a contest with older, more unusual therapies. Why was mesmerism so magnetic?
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#OnThisDay in 1802 Ludwig van Beethoven confessed his despair at the loss of his hearing in the Heiligenstadt Testament.
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