BBC History Magazine - 2017-10-12

• MONS: THE FIRST AND THE LAST COMMEMORAT­IONS NOVEMBER 2018
• Richard III: an evil mastermind?
• The latest releases reviewed, plus Niall Ferguson discusses his book on how social networks have shaped history
• The Victorians’ long shadow
• Monty’s blunders
• Heaven on Earth
• The gunpowder plot
• The Reformatio­n
• Kate Silverton chooses the archaeolog­ist Gertrude Bell
• The pick of new history programmes
• Background­er: the right in America
• Five things to do in November
• Samantha’s recipe corner
• My favourite place: Jaipur
• History Explorer: opera
• Prize crossword
• Fire destroys the Crystal Palace
• Gustavus Adolphus is killed at Lützen
• Elizabeth th I hears of Mary y I’s death
• Chaos ensues in the Newport Rising
• “Chartism in Wales never fully recovered from the Newport Rising”
• “By age 35, 8 per cent of Chester’s population had been infected with syphilis”
• 5 things you might not know about… Armistice Day
• On the current Queen’s 70th wedding anniversar­y, Julian Humphrys offers a brief history of regal nuptials
• “Statues can be filled with meaning, and then emptied of it”
• Polish pride
• The limitation­s of statues
• As Victoria and Abdul and The Limehouse Golem arrive in UK cinemas, what’s your favourite film about the Victorians and why?
• The war in the sun
• James McCudden
• Jack Dorgan
• Hawtin Mundy
• Frosty foreign relations
• Breaching the blockade
• Royal on the run
• A decade of disruption
• Papal attraction
• Killing time
• Henry IV by Chris Given-Wilson Yale, 608 pages, £19.99
• Disease and devastatio­n
• THREE MORE NOVELS SET IN THE 14TH CENTURY
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• Autumn Heritage Collection
• Are there rules that have to be followed when naming a royal baby?
• Were Britons more tolerant of conscienti­ous objectors in the Second World War than in the First?
• SOLUTION TO OUR SEPTEMBER CROSSWORD
• CROSSWORD PRIZE ZE

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