August 2011 cover

August 2011

Articles from the August 2011 issue of BBC History Magazine

Stoneleigh Abbey in Warwickshire. (Photo by Archimage/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Through the keyhole: how the finest mansions in Georgian Britain were furnished. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Oliver Cromwell at the battle of Marston Moor. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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The battle of Marston Moor: what happened?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Mary I: the forgotten trailblazer. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Elizabeth I, who, says Susan Doran, “confounded her Catholic enemies, imposed her will on the political scene, turned England into a strong Protestant state and presided over a glittering court culture”. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Elizabeth I: the great unifier. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Edward VI. The young monarch’s support for a trade venture through the North-East Passage laid the foundations for the Elizabethan age of exploration. (Photo by GeorgiosArt/Getty Images)

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Edward VI: boy king and religious zealot. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A badge promoting the Tufty Club, an organisation launched by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents to educate children on road safety, 1941. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

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Safety first: 20th-century health and safety messages

The distinctive polygon towers of Caernarfon Castle. (Photo by Gail Johnson/Getty Images)

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History explorerThe conquest of Wales. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This painting in Kensington Palace shows a group standing on a balustrade. Among them are George I’s two Turkish grooms of the chamber, ‘Mustapha’ and ‘Mohamed’. (Photo by Steve Vidler/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Tales of the Turk. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A poster produced for the London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) promoting express rail travel to the Lancashire seaside resort of Blackpool

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The great escape: Britain's love affair with the seaside holiday. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hans Holbein the Younger’s portrait of Henry VIII, c1537. Henry’s clash with the church was, says George Bernard, the most significant episode of the Tudor era and transformed England’s relationship with continental Europe. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

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The LibraryHenry VIII and the scourge of papal power

A crowned Tudor rose. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Stringer via Getty Images)

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Why the Tudors grab us. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Jonty Clark

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Ye olde travel guide: Rome 192 AD. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A statue of Æthelflæd which stands in the grounds of Tamworth Castle in Staffordshire. (Photo by Chris Gibson/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Æthelflæd: iron lady of Mercia. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Designer duo, husband and wife Robin and Lucienne Day, 1955. The pair “were perhaps the greatest British man and wife design team there has ever been”, says Wayne Hemingway. (Photo by Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy Stock Photo)

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My history hero: Robin Day (1915–2010) and Lucienne Day (1917–2010). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Henry VII in 1505. His claim to the throne was tenuous and he had to see off a posse of pretenders, yet he proved a canny and competent ruler, modernising the justice system and filling the crown’s coffers. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Henry VII: the survivor and stabiliser. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A poster depicting a First World War soldier musing over having caught a venereal disease while on furlough.(Photo by David Pollack/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Sex and the First World War: the Tommies who visited brothels. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.