March 2010 cover

March 2010

Articles from the March 2010 issue of BBC History Magazine

Women queue for potatoes in a greengrocer's shop in London, c1945. (Photo by Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer/IWM via Getty Images)

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Saving food, saving lives: rationing in the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portchester Castle in Hampshire was intended as a coastal defence against raiders. (Photo by Getty Images)

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The collapse of Roman Britain: what happened, plus 9 places which tell us more. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British soldier, explorer and big game hunter Frederick Selous, pictured in 1914. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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The hunter who became a naturalist. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The battle of Bosworth site. (Photo by Darren Walker/Dreamstime)

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The LibraryBosworth: did gunpowder win the day?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Did Henry VIII love his last wife Katherine Parr?

A helmet marks a trail over fields from the Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, 2013. The site is close to the spot where the battle of Bosworth took place in 1485, and the place where King Richard III was killed. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

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Bosworth: the race to find the battlefield. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Boar badge of Richard III discovered in Bosworth Field. (Photo by Creative Commons)

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Bosworth battle site: have we discovered where Richard III died?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hadrian's Wall photographed at Hotbank Crags and looking towards Crag Lough in Northumberland National Park. (Photo by Roger Coulam/Getty Images)

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The LibraryApocalypse then circa 410: the end of Roman Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The English writer and radio broadcaster JB Priestley at home on the Isle of Wight, 1933. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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My history hero: JB Priestley (1894–1984). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lady Jane Grey's execution, as imagined by painter Paul Delaroche in 1833. (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Lady Jane Grey: why do we want to believe the myth?