July 2014 cover

July 2014

Articles from the July 2014 issue of BBC History Magazine

Charles V of Spain depicted on a 16th-century gold coin

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Kwasi Kwarteng"Wars are bloody expensive – so the only way nations can buy what they need is by printing their own money". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A statue of Robert the Bruce Statue at Stirling Castle, Scotland. (Dreamstime)

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The battle of Bannockburn: Robert Bruce's fight for freedom

A still from the set of 'Westward the Women', directed by William A Wellman. (Photo by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

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How the Wild West was spun. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A letter-writer depicted by Janez Subic, c1878. (© Getty)

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The great Victorian letter swindle. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Richard III.

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Inside the mind of Richard III. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Crowds in Coronation Park, Delhi, celebrate the coronation of King George V in 1911. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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The LibraryDid Britain make the modern world?

Nelson Mandela and wife Winnie Mandela upon his release from prison. (Photo by Allan Tannenbaum/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

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My history heroNelson Mandela (1918-2013). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

William Kent, a Yorkshire-born artist and architect

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History explorer: The English landscape garden. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An oil painting by John Cleveley The Elder depicting the Royal Naval Dockyard

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The quest for longitude: the men who mapped the surface of the earth. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mont Saint Michel (Getty Images)

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My favourite place: Mont Saint Michel, France