July 2018

Articles from the July 2018 issue of BBC History Magazine

Adolf Hitler, photographed from behind, stands on a raised platform overlooking thousands of troops arranged in formation at a Nazi rally in Dortmund.

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The Nazis fell in love with the Bayeux Tapestry – and there's a dark reason why. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Anne of Denmark, wife of James I of England

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Anne of Denmark: a killer queen?

ever before,” says Margaret MacMillan. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

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"We’ve come to think that peace is normal, but that's not the reality": Margaret MacMillan on humanity's compulsion to go to war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The birth pains of the NHS: how Britain's National Health Service was created. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ragnar Lothbrok. (Illustration by Georgie Gozem for BBC History Magazine)

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Ragnar Lothbrok: the legend of the immortal Viking and his sons

Mona Baptiste, a Trinidad-born blues singer

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“London is the place for me”: David Olusoga on the Windrush generation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

English philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch/Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images)

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My history hero: Angela Burdett-Coutts. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The city of Bern, Switzerland. "I lived in Bern as a young lecturer, and I still feel positive about its effect on my life and writing," says Seán Williams. (Photo by Chinnaphong Mungsiri via Getty Images)

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My favourite place: Bern, Switzerland

Sunlight dapples a clearing in Sherwood Forest, which was an essential resource for peasants centuries before it became a tourist attraction (Photo by Alamy)

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Where history happenedAncient forests. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Keith Thomas. (Photo by Fran Monks)

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Books interview with Keith Thomas: “The world was divided into the ‘civil’ and the ‘barbarous’”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Vera Brittain, who worked as a nurse during the First World War and went on to become one of the leading writers of the interwar years. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Love, loss and distorted memories. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.