BBC History Magazine - 2018-09-06

• The Boleyns
• Appeasing the Nazis
• The credit crunch
• Rome’s leading women
• MY HISTORY HERO
• Background­er: Trump’s trade war
• My favourite place: Vienna
• Samantha’s recipe corner
• Muslim worship in Britain
• Prize crossword
• Why Ian Kershaw’s latest book was his most challengin­g to write yet
• Guns are ablaze at the OK Corral
• The mini dress makes waves at the races
• Edward Gibbon finds unlikely inspiratio­n in a crumbling city
• The British are issued with a Boer ultimatum
• “It was, wrote Churchill, a ‘miserable war, ill-omened in its beginning’”
• “Some fathers are recorded as deserting to the Cape, France or the East Indies to avoid paying maintenanc­e”
• “Is a reformed Confucian state the answer to the 21st-century crisis?”
• Some surprising omissions
• Students scrubbed Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If’ off a university wall, saying he was “racist”. Is it ever right to erase work when a historical figure’s reputation is revised by modern standards?
• The other Boleyn boy
• Financial crisis glossary
• Lust, lies and lynchpins
• William Collins
• Sir Douglas Haig
• William Holbrook
• 1 Playground of the pharaohs
• 2 Egypt’s mini Babylon
• 3 The bread basket of Rome
• 4 An Arab powerhouse
• 5 The scramble for Suez
• 10 tips to choosing a history degree
• Lessons from abroad
• “In a world where fake news can influence elections, the methods of the historian are needed more than ever”
• A familiar tale
• A whole new world
• The family firm
• Local legends
• Mud, blood and poetry
• Case closed
• Praetorian: The Rise and Fall of Rome’s Imperial Bodyguard by Guy de la Bédoyère
• The Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey
• Mist and murder
• THREE MORE NOVELS ON CRIME IN LONDON
• Fear and fever
• ALSO LOOK OUT FOR…
• FOUR MORE PLACES TO EXPLORE
• RAILWAYS TO VISIT
• Historic DAYS OUT
• Autumn Heritage Collection
• Why are weather vanes traditiona­lly depicted with a cockerel on top?

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