BBC History Magazine - 2015-07-16

• The French monarchy topples
• Kuwait falls to Iraqi forces
• William Wallace dies a grisly death
• New finds could reveal the origins of Stonehenge
• David Keys,
• As millions of Britons paint their faces and don their Wellington­s, looks at some music festivals, past and present
• Pilot shortage in 1940
• SOCIAL MEDIA
• “It was fifty years ago today… the world crackled with possibilit­ies”
• ‘riskiest ... we’ve known’”
• Thomas Louch
• Lone wolf?
• Balance of power
• PAPERBACKS
• FICTION The wild wild west
• Practical philosophe­rs
• HISTORY EXPLORER The Pendle witches
• “BY ADMITTING TO HAVING ENCOUNTERE­D EVIL SPIRITS, THE ACCUSED HAD EFFECTIVEL­Y PLACED THEIR HEADS IN THE NOOSE”
• I know of several historical reasons why the British and most of their former colonies drive on the left-hand side of the road. However, why do other nations drive on the right?
• Vanilla ice cream
• PRIZE CROSSWORD

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