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Quiz: What's happening here?

2 January 2026

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Richard Harrington/Hulton Archive/Getty Images circa 1960: Two little girls displaying opposing emotions

Snapshots from history with a baffling bent. Simply select the correct answer.

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Former asylum with storied history is now on market

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Canalside Heritage Centre, housed in two late 18th Century brick cottages

Museum recreates family's Victorian canalside home

The display shows how a family lived together and worked by the Beeston and Nottingham Canal.

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A computer animation image of a 19th Century coal miner reading a newspaper by the light of a candle

Interactive app brings DH Lawrence's world to life

The town and landscape which shaped the author is revealed at locations on a heritage walk.