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September 2011

Articles from the September 2011 issue of BBC History Magazine

London schoolboys on strike, Shoreditch, September 1911. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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Schoolchildren on strike: when pupils demanded shorter hours. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration titled ‘The petition for abolishing the slave trade’, from Amelia Opie’s ’The Black Man's Lament; or How to Make Sugar’, London, 1826. “Come, listen to my plaintive ditty,/Ye tender hearts, and children dear!/And, should it move your souls to pity,/Oh! try to end the griefs you hear.” (Photo by Photo 12/UIG via Getty Images)

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9 key places connected to the abolition of the British slave trade. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The front page of the first edition of The Sun newspaper. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

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A big day in history: The Sun first appeared on shelves in newsagents. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bluestones, like these in the Preseli hills, were used to build Stonehenge. (Photo by Paula Connelly via Getty Images)

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Britain’s buried secrets. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hans Litten (centre) in court while representing communists, 25 August 1932. Litten’s decision to subpoena Hitler a year earlier was to cost him his life. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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Hitler in the dock. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A London Missionary Society (LMS) mission in Papua New Guinea, c1920s. (Photo by Chronicle/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Married to a missionary. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A stone relief depicting men bringing gifts to the king, c500 BC. (Getty Images)

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The Persian empire: myth vs reality. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history hero: Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In his last official photo, Adolf Hitler leaves the safety of his bunker to award decorations to members of Hitler Youth. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images)

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Why did the Nazis fight to the death?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A European buyer of enslaved people

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Who started the enslavement of Africans in the Americas?

Illustration by Jonty Clark

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Ye olde travel guide: St Petersburg 1725. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.