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May 2016

Articles from the May 2016 issue of BBC History Magazine

Plan of the island of Utopia, from Thomas More's work of the same name depicting an ideal state

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Thomas More's Utopia – what lessons did it have for Tudor England?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The crew of SMS King in its home port following the battle of the Skagerrak, June 1916. (Photo by A Renard/ullstein image via Getty Images)

First World War

Jutland: the battle that won the First World War

A portrait of Edward IV, the first Yorkist king of England. From the National Portrait Gallery. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Edward IV: champion of the Wars of the Roses

British military behind a barricade in Dublin, 1916. (Photo by ullstein picture via Getty Images)

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Bullets and ballot boxes: a history of Anglo-Irish relations since the Easter Rising. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Arthur Rackham to the play ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream’ by William Shakespeare. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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The fairy menace. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Kate Summerscale. (Photo by Fran Monks)

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The wicked boy: the mystery of a Victorian child murderer. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten in Burma, March 1944. (Photo by Roger Viollet/Getty Images)

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When Britain tamed ‘superman’. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Brandenburg Gate, Berlin. (Photo by Oliver Duerre/EyeEm/Getty Images)

Second World War

My favourite place: Berlin

The Cutty Sark, Greenwich, London. (Photo by Dreamstime)

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The LibraryHistory explorer: the golden age of sail. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of William Shakespeare by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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My history hero: William Shakespeare (1564–1616). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 1954 advertisement for Cooper's Y-Front. (Photo by Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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A revealing history of underwear. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.