BBC History Magazine - 2017-11-09

• The cruel cost of the Blitz
• The Balfour Declaratio­n
• Hellish Victorian hospitals
• Caroline of Ansbach
• Elizabeth I’s nemesis
• MY HISTORY HERO
• A fearless fossil hunter
• TV & RADIO
• MICHAEL WOOD’S VIEW
• OUR FIRST WORLD WAR
• ANNIVERSAR­IES
• My favourite place: Camargue
• History Explorer: Charles II
• Samantha’s recipe corner
• Past notes: the Nobel Prize
• Background­er: Catalonia
• Prize crossword
• Q& A and quiz
• Coronation Street hits TV sets
• The Sioux are cut down at Wounded Knee
• Boston rebels dump tea into the sea
• “The Boston Tea Party was a lawless act in defence of higher principles”
• “The children of Australian convicts were more successful than those of British convicts”
• 5 things you might not know about... Concorde
• Don’t erase the past
• Take care with modern comparison­s
• SOCIAL MEDIA
• Henry VIII’s “black trumpet”
• The landowner’s enforcer
• The prosperous silk weaver
• A servant who switched faiths
• A single woman in rural England
• The soft-skinned prostitute
• Queen of hearts
• Fateful moments
• Medieval mindsets
• Family values
• Siege mentality
• Awful aristocrac­y
• PAPERBACKS
• FICTION Raising the curtain
• THREE MORE NOVELS FEATURING SHAKESPEAR­E
• ALSO LOOK OUT FOR…
• FIVE MORE PLACES TO EXPLORE
• To what extent did ordinary Romans love the emperors? How can we tell?

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