October 2016 cover

October 2016

Articles from the October 2016 issue of BBC History Magazine

A portrait of Cnut holding a sceptre. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Cnut: the great Dane. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A battle of Flodden memorial statue of one of the Hawick Callants on horseback, raising the captured banner aloft in triumph. Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland. (Getty Images)

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History explorer: the battle of Flodden. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A London slum family stood in a street with all their possessions following eviction, c1901. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Life in 19th-century slums: Victorian London’s homes from hell

A dirt road in the Alabama Hills of the Eastern Sierra Nevada. The road leads to Mount Whitney and Lone Pine Peak. (Photo by Mimi Ditchie Photography/Getty Images)

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My favourite place: California, USA

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My history hero: Sam Cooke (1931–64). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A painting depicting the storming of the Tuileries. (Photo By DEA/G DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

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Socialite, spy, saviour: Grace Dalrymple Elliott. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Adolf Hitler (left) and his interpreter (centre) talking to Spanish leader Francisco Franco. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/US Army Signal Corps/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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The LibraryHitler’s fury, Franco’s guile and the bribe that saved the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Viscountess Nancy Astor on her election campaign in 1919. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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The LibraryWomen pioneers in parliament. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Former US president Ronald Reagan and president of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev during a meeting in Moscow, Russia, on 16 September 1990. (Photo by Wojtek Laski/Getty Images)

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Transcending the Cold War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The London & North Western Railway locomotive Jeanie Deans picking up water at Bushey Troughs, 1899. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

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Europe’s century of peace and progress. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustrations by Sarah Young, based on contemporary portraits where available

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Henry VII’s brilliant upstarts: the lowborn henchmen who served the first Tudor king. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.