BBC History Magazine - 2018-12-28

• Piers Brendon
• Hannah Greig
• Eric Lacey
• How the navy saved Britain
• The rebel they couldn’t gag
• The Treaty of Versailles
• ANNIVERSAR­IES
• TV & RADIO
• MY HISTORY HERO
• MICHAEL WOOD’S VIEW
• History Explorer: Roman Scotland
• Past notes: new year’s resolution­s
• My favourite place: Chiang Mai
• Five things to do in January
• Background­er: Viktor Orbán
• Prize crossword
• Tunnel vision comes to fruition
• Henry IV cracks down on alchemy
• Gandhi is assassinat­ed on his way to prayer
• COMMENT / Yasmin Khan
• URGENT APPEAL: help Syrian refugee parents like Khitam to protect their children through the winter.
• “Virtually untouched for 250 years, most of the letters were unopened and in pristine condition”
• HISTORY NEWS ROUND-UP
• A man of his time
• Historical­ly inaccurate but still good fun: what’s your ‘guilty pleasure’ historical film or television series?
• TRACE YOUR FAMILY HISTORY FOR FREE
• The Guise family
• Henry, Lord Darnley
• The Earl of Bothwell
• The Earl of Moray
• William Cecil
• Elizabeth I
• And finally… Mary herself
• TIMELINE NORWAY, 1940: How Hitler lost the edge at sea
• Gender politics
• Tudor powerhouse
• Seafaring superpower­s
• Critical massacre
• What the Greeks did for us
• Runaway brides
• False dawn
• The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present by Ronald Hutton
• Rome: A History in Seven Sackings by Matthew Kneale
• Egyptian intrigue
• THREE MORE NOVELS ON ANCIENT EGYPTIAN CRIMES
• ALSO LOOK OUT FOR…
• ROMAN FORTS THREE MORE PLACES TO EXPLORE
• Q How did policing work in London before the Metropolit­an Police Act was passed in 1829?
• Amygdalota
• Q What were the ‘Corn Laws’ of the 19th century?
• CROSSWORD PRIZE
• SOLUTION TO OUR DECEMBER 2018 CROSSWORD

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