BBC History Magazine - 2016-04-22

• Pilot Amelia Earhart flies across the Atlantic single-handedly
• Anne Boleyn is arrested
• Emperor Maximus is killed fleeing the city of Rome
• Wesley is born again
• Dread zeppelin
• Asa Briggs (1921–2016)
• Following the announceme­nt that a sugar tax is to be introduced in the UK, takes a look at its bitter-sweet history
• SOCIAL MEDIA
• “Tales such as can be traced back to the Bronze Age”
• Hapless monarch
• De Valera leaves Britain to fight on alone
• Fine Gael cuts the final ties with London
• The old foes find common ground
• A fairy changeling
• At home with Hitler
• Chaos and catastroph­e
• Brain freeze
• FICTION Death and destructio­n
• THREE MORE TALES OF 17THCENTUR­Y ENGLAND
• On the continent
• HISTORY EXPLORER The golden age of sail
• “THE ABILITY OF SHIPS TO SAIL AROUND THE GLOBE REGULARLY AND RELIABLY LINKED UP THE WORLD FOR THE FIRST TIME”
• Pieday Friday
• PRIZE CROSSWORD

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