February 2014 cover

February 2014

Articles from the February 2014 issue of BBC History Magazine

The Ghent Altarpiece. (Image by Getty Images)

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Who were the real monuments men of the Second World War?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

1,138: The number of London children recorded as dying of “teeth” in 1685. (Illustration: James Albon for BBC History Magazine)

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History’s most surprising statistics. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Journalist Ruth First, pictured right, at Anti-Apartheid Movement's freedom day rally in Trafalgar Square, London in 1965. Also pictured are actor Patrick Wymark (left) and Bishop Reeves (middle). (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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My history hero: Ruth First (1925-82). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian Alexander Broadie, photographed in the Hungarian Museum. (Photographer: Jeremy Sutton)

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History explorer: The Scottish Enlightenment

Worshippers inside the Duke Street Baptist Church in Richmond, Surrey, listening to a service in 1954. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images)

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The LibraryD-Day for God?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Army recruits take the oath in White City, London, December 1914. “Creating an army more or less from scratch was a recipe for disastrous losses,” claims Niall Ferguson. (Getty Images)

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“Britain should have stayed out of the First World War” says Niall Ferguson. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A depiction of a public hanging of a bandit. (Photo by: Leemage/UIG via Getty Images)

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Sin City: thievery, prostitution and murder in medieval London. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Larry Siedentrop photographed for BBC History Magazine. (Image by Geraint Lewis)

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Books interview with Larry Siedentop: "What is distinctive about the west is that the organising social role is no longer the patriarchal family and instead the individual". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of a young Queen Victoria, c1850, by F Winterhalter

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How the killing of Queen Victoria’s personal chef changed Anglo-German relations. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A recruitment poster used during the First World War, c1915.

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Why Britain was right to go to war in 1914. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.