BBC History Magazine - 2015-09-10

• Nathaniel Parker chooses Henry VIII
• Background­er: the Labour Party
• History Explorer: the Jacobites
• Five things to do in October
• My favourite place: Brittany
• Samantha’s recipe corner
• Past notes: Rugby
• Prize crossword
• How Agincourt became a propaganda triumph
• How Georgian ‘lowlifes’ influenced justice and welfare
• Why Europe prospered after the Second World War
• "A GOOD EMPEROR HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO ALSO BE A GOOD ACTOR"
• Alan Turing’s codebreaki­ng feats
• Gory and heroic accounts from the First World War
• Brutus commits suicide
• ‘Jack the Ripper’ posts a gruesome memento
• Cromwell’s army ravages Wexford
• Mussolini marches to power in Italy
• “From that point on there was only one truth – and it was Fascist”
• Would you recognise Henry V? This poll suggests you may not...
• A child is stolen by a monkey
• SOCIAL MEDIA
• “English campaigns on foreign soil have a long and bloody history”
• Build-up to the battle
• Simplifyin­g the Byzantine
• Power struggle
• Revolution­s in the head
• THREE MORE TALES OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE
• Lady of the prance
• “ON BOGGY CULLODEN MOOR, THE EXHAUSTED, DISHEARTEN­ED – AND ILL-LED – JACOBITE ARMY WAS DEFEATED IN AROUND AN HOUR”

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