February 2020

Expert articles from the February 2020 issue of BBC History Magazine

A portrait and a cartoon of George III

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The two sides of George IV: is his wretched reputation deserved?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jayaben Desai salutes fellow pickets at the Grunwick film processing factory in 1977

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The Grunwick protests: remembering the 1970s strike for migrant workers' rights. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Toft, perpetrator of the 1726 hoax – in which she appeared to give birth to rabbits

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The woman who gave birth to rabbits? How Mary Toft's hoax captured Georgian society

Left: Hungarian Jews arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau, in German-occupied Poland, in June 1944. Between May and July that year, more than 430,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to the camp complex. Right: Prisoners at Dachau celebrate the liberation of the camp by US soldiers on 29 April 1945. The camp was used again after the war to house SS personnel awaiting trial, and then German refugees. (Photos by Getty Images and Alamy)

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Aftermath of the Holocaust: how Europe dealt with the crimes of the Third Reich. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth I arrives in Tilbury

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The Spanish Armada: one of history’s biggest fibs?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Our composite image shows Henry II framed by an Arabic arch. Henry claimed he "would sooner accept the errors of Nur-al-Din" than suffer Thomas Becket remaining as archbishop. (Image by Bridgeman/Getty Images)

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King Henry II: the Muslim monarch of medieval England?

Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at Admiralty House, London

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History heroMichael Heseltine chooses Harold Macmillan (1894–1986). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An engraving depicts a frost fair on the Thames

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Frozen: Britain's Little Ice Age