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November 2013

Articles from the November 2013 issue of BBC History Magazine

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Admiral Lord Nelson: 10 days that created a legend. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This red-figure pottery depicts a story involving Helen of Troy. Greek tragedies posed their audiences an awkward question: what would you do if you were in a similar situation? Meanwhile, comedy gave satirists a channel through which to cut Athens' political heavies down to size. (DEA/G.NIMATALLAH/De Agostini/Getty Images)

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Ancient Greek theatre and the Athenian identity. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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From the first Remembrance Day to remembrance today. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Self-portraits: How people took selfies in the past

A policeman feels the full force of a blast in this illustration – from the 7 June 1884 issue of 'The Illustrated Police News' – depicting a Fenian attack on Scotland Yard. The Fenians' dynamite campaign of the early 1880s provoked a radical response from the British government. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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The Victorian war on terror. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The other Elizabethan England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The coffin containing the remains of Richard III. The skeleton of the king was discovered in 2012 in the foundations of Greyfriars Church, Leicester, 500 years after he was killed during the battle of Bosworth. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

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The discovery of Richard III's remains

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1914: Why Britain had to go to war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history hero: Robert Baden Powell (1857–1941). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ye olde travel guide: Caracas 1783. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American poet Ezra Pound, a major figure of the early modernist movement. (Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Images)

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The march of the Green Shirts. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Beaumaris Gaol, Anglesey, Wales. The prison could accommodate up to 30 inmates under the so-called 'silent system', in which inmates slept in separate cells at night but worked and attended chapels and classes together during the day. (Ashley Cooper via Getty Images)

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History Explorer: 19th-century prison reform. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.