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August 2013
August 2013
Articles from the August 2013 issue of BBC History Magazine
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“I Have A Dream”: the speech that America couldn’t ignore
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The great British civil rights scandal: the Bristol bus boycott
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The downfall of Mary, Queen of Scots
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