July 2011

Articles from the July 2011 issue of BBC History Magazine

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A memorial tomb to King Æthelstan, in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire. (Photo by Geography Photos/UIG via Getty Images)

If King Alfred was great, was Æthelstan even greater? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Richard Nixon at the White House with his family following his resignation as president, 9 August 1974. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Richard Nixon’s final address: the day the president departed the White House . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An engraving depicting London's Piccadilly Circus heaving with crowds on their way to The Great Exhibition of 1851. A banner reading 'God save the Queen and Prince Albert' has been strung across the street. Within the Crystal Palace some 100,000 objects were displayed – taking up ten miles of space – the work of 15,000 contributors. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

From the Great Exhibition to the Festival of Britain: the decline and fall of the British empire

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Field Marshal Harold Alexander, pictured in 1943. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

My history hero Field Marshal Harold Alexander (1891–1969) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Clean-up crews salvaging what they can from the ruins of buildings in Hornsey, a north London suburb, 1944. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Hitler’s secret weapon

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Britain’s waterways have enjoyed a renaissance since the Second World War. (Photo by George W Johnson/Getty Images)

History explorer: Britain’s inland waterways . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A detail of a funerary monument from Athens, Greece depicting a squire taming a horse. Holding elaborate funerals was one of the many ways in which aristocrats broadcast their great wealth. (Photo By DEA/G.DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

The trouble with luxury

A Saracen attack on Crusaders, from the French manuscript 'Chroniques de Saint Denis', c1200. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Traders and crusaders

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Illustration by Jonty Clark

Ye olde travel guide: Constantinople 976 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.