BBC History Magazine - 2020-01-23

• The climate emergency is the greatest crisis in human history
• It was more shocking than anything in the pages of the gothic novels
• 150 years and counting
• When did Britain come closest to revolution?
• Want to know how England defeated the Spanish Armada? Then forget everything you learned at school
• “At my university in Switzerlan­d, students rather than their tutors decided when they were ready to take an exam”
• “History in India is still very much alive. Every aspect of present-day life there feels shaped by the past”
• “As an undergradu­ate in the United States, you need to be prepared to study a wide variety of fields beyond history”
• “In France, university strikes were seen as a formative part of your education in political engagement”
• what the Dickens?
• “The ‘rabbit-breeder’ hoax could be read as an eloquent political protest”
• With God on our side
• The empire slides back
• Forever changes
• Home fires burning

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