August 2010 cover

August 2010

Articles from the August 2010 issue of BBC History Magazine

Extract from Domesday Book.

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A portrait of Florence Nightingale

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The man best associated with the new style of landscape gardening was William Kent (c1686–1748), a Yorkshire-born artist and architect. (Public domain)

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‘Smugglers', c1785, from ‘Adventures by sea from art of old time’ by Basil Lubbock. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

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