BBC History Magazine - 2015-08-13

• Anne of Cleves
• French Terror
• Why the Crusaders went to war
• Joshua Levine
• Christophe­r Tyerman
• A dog’s-eye view of Paris
• COMPETITIO­N
• Make Catholics pay!
• HISTORY NOW
• TV & RADIO
• A Spaghetti House hostage crisis grips the nation
• English forces triumph at Poitiers
• Napoleon’s grand entrance into Moscow turns to ash and ruins
• Greece defeats Persia, once and for all
• “It was a battle not just for Greek independen­ce, but for Greek civilisati­on”
• BRITAIN’S ROADS
• Pouring scorn on corn The flames of resistance
• Rolson Davies,
• SOCIAL MEDIA
• “It’s still the BBC’s job to convey beauty, meaning and knowledge”
• Men of terror
• Friends and rivals
• Four-legged agents of the law
• “Dog cutlets with petits pois”
• Pope-burnings, land grabs and “half- citizens”
• Joe Murray
• Sir Douglas Haig
• Five Blitz criminals
• Idiosyncra­sy and idealism
• The first empire
• The man and the myth
• PAPERBACKS
• THREE MORE GREAT ARTISTS IN FICTION
• WANT MORE ?
• FIVE MORE PLACES TO EXPLORE
• How were thousands of people killed in medieval battles? Surely swords were far less efficient than guns
• PRIZE CROSSWORD
• CROSSWORD COMPETITIO­N TERMS & CONDITIONS
• Eagles at War

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