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When do you become an adult?

Marriage, kids, and the history of our ideas about adulthood. Laura Tisdall, lecturer in modern British history at Newcastle University, explains the shifting milestones of adult life.

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  What is ‘The Great Replacement’ theory?

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  Breeding for Britain

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  How pop stars make money

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  Pop stars, boundaries and toxic fandom

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  What are “furries”?

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  Claims children are identifying as animals

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  The origins of racial terms like “coconut”

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  Coconuts, race and hate speech

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  What is dwarfism?

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  Snow White and the dwarfism debate

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  When the Nazis banned smoking

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  Outdoor smoking ban

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  A history of Received Pronunciation

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  Accent and class

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  What is the ‘manosphere’?

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  'Extreme' Misogyny