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  • Dark tourism, darker history: exploring museums of crime
  • Stonehenge renewed
  • The mop fair
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  • Bones found on Cornish coast analysed
  • Museum marks black community’s contribution to WW2
  • New educational buildings approved for Stonehenge
  • Aerial dance show explores Cornish mining woman’s story
  • Missing piece of Stonehenge returned
  • Tickets now on sale for June’s Chalke Valley History Festival

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