BBC History Magazine - 2016-03-24

• Cromwell forcibly dissolves the Rump Parliament
• Mutiny on the
• Members of Assassins cult kill Conrad I of Jerusalem
• Chernobyl reactor explodes
• “Chernobyl makes it harder for people to believe in a safe nuclear future”
• Uniformity of thought
• Scientists uncover the world’s oldest pyramid… in Bulgaria
• As we get set to binge on Easter eggs, serves up their history in bite-sized chunks
• A packet of vipers is sent through the post
• Decimal delight
• SOCIAL MEDIA
• “They provide a sense of identity and place in troubled times”
• “Henry adored Catherine, who restored to him the youth and vitality he thought he’d lost. There was nothing he would not do for her”
• James McCudden
• Sir Douglas Haig
• William Collins
• England bleeds again
• Scripting sedition
• A war on Catholics
• Fear of the Moors
• Death before starvation
• Brave new world
• Pride and prejudice
• Original sinners?
• A divisive figure
• PAPERBACKS
• FICTION Sea change
• THREE MORE NOVELS ABOUT DISASTER AT SEA
• The key of life
• Exams past and present
• HISTORY EXPLORER The dissolutio­n of the monasterie­s
• “CROMWELL MADE THE EXCEPTIONA­L SEEM THE NORM. HE FOUND THE JUICIEST STORIES, THE JUICIEST EXAMPLES OF CORRUPTION”
• How did people feast in the Middle Ages? And what food would have been served to the feasters?
• Jersey wonders
• PRIZE CROSSWORD

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