BBC History Magazine - 2018-11-01

• Max Hastings on Vietnam
• Like father, like son?
• The radical Walter Ralegh
• MY HISTORY HERO
• 21 MICHAEL WOOD’S VIEW
• History Explorer: British ceramics
• Background­er: homelessne­ss
• Prize crossword
• Past notes: vinyl
• A headstrong heroine makes her debut
• Agatha Christie vanishes
• Oliver Cromwell assumes power as lord protector
• Japanese planes bomb Pearl Harbor
• “There was little room for diplomacy in Japan’s increasing­ly extreme world view”
• “Historical­ly and archaeolog­ically, Beowulf ends in around AD 550”
• From western front to West End
• Following the approval of plans to build on part of the site of the battle of Bosworth, we asked: should we be allowed to build on sites of historic interest?
• Another chip off the old block
• “The bullets whizzed by my ears – you know, ping, ping, ping”
• “I had lost three good mates. It was like losing part of my life”
• “I remember my grandma rocking back and forth on her heels with fear”
• “They amputated a leg, and I had to take the wretched thing away”
• “My letters were found on his body. I couldn’t imagine him not being there”
• “It still has an effect on me now. You never forget it”
• THE HISTORY ESSAY
• THE HISTORY ESSAY
• MAN OF THE WORLD
• Vietnam at war
• A cry for help
• America swaggers into the fray
• Churchill plays the global card
• “An achievemen­t of the highest order”
• The relationsh­ip goes cold
• Scotland’s darkest days
• Tomb hunting
• Dissent and retributio­n
• Indian Tommies
• Copycat killing
• War to Windrush: Black Women in Britain 1939 to 1948 by Stephen Bourne
• Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906 by David Cannadine
• FICTION A death in the family
• THREE MORE TUDOR-ERA MYSTERIES
• When the guns cease
• ALSO LOOK OUT FOR…
• Fighting inequality
• Q Did the samurai have the Japanese equivalent of a coat of arms?
• Q When was ‘ f’ first used to represent ‘s’ in old documents and why?

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