BBC History Magazine - 2020-04-16

• Catherine Rider
• Linda Porter
• David Nash
• Historyext­ra.com
• The History Extra podcast
• The bitter taste of victory
• Early modern time travels
• Socialism: an American tale
• Target Zero Day, when smallpox was finally declared eradicated
• Misleading impression?
• Contested portrait
• Never again
• Of all the British ministeria­l positions that no longer exist, which were the most important?
• What was Britain’s most unexpected general election result?
• How much did the Soviet Union know about D-Day before it happened?
• Bonfire of the duties
• “AN ICEBERG WITH A SLIGHT THAW”
• The war without an end
• World-first Typographi­c £5 Coin Presents Churchill in His Own Words: This is your Victory
• 1. THE NAZIS’ OVERCONFID­ENCE
• 2. THE INVASION OF THE SOVIET UNION
• 3. ALLIED OPERATIONA­L CAPACITY
• 4. HITLER’S MILITARY INTERVENTI­ONS
• 6. THE CODEBREAKE­RS OF BLETCHLEY PARK
• 7. THE ALLIES RULED THE WAVES
• 8. THE NAZIS WERE THE UNDERDOGS
• Fortune’s fool
• The sins of the father
• Miracles of Our Own Making: A History of Paganism
• A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompeten­ce and Social Division in Modern Spain
• “Cecil Beaton essentiall­y did the same job for our queen as Hans Holbein the Younger did for Henry VIII”

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