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December 2017
December 2017
Articles from the December 2017 issue of BBC History Magazine
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Dorothea Bate: A fearless fossil hunter
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Georgian
Caroline of Ansbach: why George II’s remarkable queen was the first iron lady of British politics
Tudor
A Tudor love triangle: Elizabeth I, Lettice Knollys and Robert Dudley
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An appointment at the house of death: the horror of the early Victorian hospital
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Michael Wood on Anglo-Saxon Christianity
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Jeremy Corbyn chooses Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–97)
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20th Century
My favourite place: the Camargue, France
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Charles II's great escape
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Books interview: Simon Schama
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Second World War
The cruel cost of the Blitz: how did everyday Britons rebuild their lives?
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Black faces of Tudor England
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The Balfour Declaration: Britain’s unholy mess
Medieval
My favourite place: the Camargue, France
