BBC History Magazine - 2022-05-12

• A noble tradition?
• Darwin notebooks returned to library
• AFGHAN CRISIS APPEAL
• The public announceme­nt of the Difference Engine, which marked the start of automatic computing
• Life after the Black Death
• A one-way ticket to Bedlam
• Burning injustice
• Why were the Medici given a giraffe?
• How Under Milk Wood realised IN FOCUS the Third Programme’s potential
• Retirement done right
• George III’s last hurrah
• How Queen Victoria stepped out of mourning… into the modern age
• When George V turned monarchy into a religion
• Generating fear
• Grave insights
• Getting the scoop
• A congregati­on of voices
• First letters
• All at sea
• “We’ve been sending vinegar flies into orbit since 1947. I wish they went up in little space suits”

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