BBC History Magazine - 2018-01-25

• Why did a Chinese emperor create the vast Terracotta Army?
• Victory at last!
• A tale of Troy
• Ruth Ellis
• A century for women?
• MY HISTORY HERO
• Gandhi’s British adventures
• My student days
• OUT & ABOUT
• Five things to do in February
• Samantha’s recipe corner
• Background­er: Bitcoin
• Prize crossword
• Past notes: plastic
• Experts debate the effectiven­ess of suffragett­e violence
• Justinian begins work on a dazzling holy building
• France’s last king abdicates amid riots
• Thatcher becomes Britain’s first female party leader
• Mary creates a Protestant martyr
• “This technology offers historians huge time-saving benefits over standard research methods”
• HISTORY IN THE NEWS
• An explosive discovery
• “It was a visionary idea born out of postwar optimism and fairness”
• Look closer to home
• Speaking up for Ceolwulf II
• What you’ve been saying on Twitter and Facebook
• THE DEATH OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
• Pushing flight to the limit
• TIMELINE Gandhi’s extraordin­ary journey
• From zero to hero
• Dispelling Hitler’s myths
• Off the rails
• A genteel campaign
• Blitzing the airwaves
• Stories from the front
• Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary and the Crisis that Shook the World by Alex von Tunzelmann
• Isabella of Castile: Europe’s First Great Queen by Giles Tremlett
• Sins of the father
• THREE MORE NOVELS SET IN AFRICA
• ALSO LOOK OUT FOR…
• FIVE MORE PLACES TO EXPLORE
• Paris, France
• Why was the discovery of the Stafford shire Hoard so important?
• How did foreign currency work in medieval Europe?

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