October 2017 cover

October 2017

Articles from the October 2017 issue of BBC History Magazine

Illustration of Queen Matilda of Boulogne, by Eleanor Shakespeare

Norman

Matilda of Boulogne: Norman England’s warrior queen

Illustration of last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustus, surrendering to the 'barbarian' Odoacer

Roman

Your guide to...the fall of Rome

Inside the fort was a famous spring, St Helen’s Well, today Robin Hood’s Well. (© Bill Henderson)

Anglo-Saxon

Brunanburh: Where did the battle that saved England take place?

Photo by Klaus Vedfelt via Getty Images

General Modern

Top tips for studying history at university

The Knights Templar depicted on an antique map of Jerusalem. (Alamy)

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The rise and fall of the Knights Templar. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bob Marley performs live on stage with the Wailers in Holland

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My history hero: Bob Marley (1945–81). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British prime minister Clement Attlee reading a document in his office, 27 July 1946. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Attlee’s secret war with Stalin. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Indian princes and British Army officers in the Hyderabad contingent polo team, c1880. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Victorian

Cricket, curry and cups of tea: India's influence on Victorian Britain

Soviet submarines. (Bettmann via Getty Images)

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When the world didn’t end. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Prince of Wales loading a rifle in the Grenadiers, First World War, 1914. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Edward VIII: How war scarred the playboy prince. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Michael X, (right, foreground) black power advocate, in Hyde Park. (Photo by Terence Spencer/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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Michael X and the British war on black power. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A view of Old Trail Town, a collection of historic western buildings and artifacts, located in Cody, Wyoming. (Photo by Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images)

General Early Modern

My favourite place: Cody, Wyoming

The University Church of St Mary the Virgin Oxford

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The LibraryHistory explorer: The Oxford Martyrs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Viking

Michael Wood on… the Galloway Hoard

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My favourite place: Cody, Wyoming