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April 2016
April 2016
Articles from the April 2016 issue of BBC History Magazine
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The earthquakes that rocked Georgian London (plus three more seismic events that shaped history)
Anglo-Saxon
Edmund Ironside: Anglo-Saxon warrior king
20th Century
My favourite place: Malta
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Hadrian’s travels
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Mary Beard on why Rome ruled the world
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Catherine Howard: The death of innocence
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How Shakespeare rewrote history
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My history hero: Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918)
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"Charles II had to appeal to public opinion more than his predecessors did"
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6 places to explore the dissolution of the monasteries
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