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January 2012
January 2012
Articles from the January 2011 issue of BBC History Magazine
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The battle of Rorke’s Drift: a stand still clad in the “myths of empire”
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How George VI’s sheer ordinariness made him the darling of the nation
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Wales: In search of a history
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Are these the most overrated people in history?
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Beware what you buy: the goods German citizens were forbidden to consume
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The Golden Coast
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My history hero: Sir Moses I Finley (1912–86)
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Why Islam crushed the crusaders
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