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World Service,1 min

'The Female Menace'

The Why Factor

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The chronicle of ordinary people’s lives, newspapers can throw up some surprise stories missed by the history books, as British Newspaper Archive researcher Alex Cox told Mike Williams. (Image: Early editions of various newspapers hanging on the wall. Credit: Image courtesy of the British Library)

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