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Charlotte Hodgman
[9th October 2012 - 07.46]
The latest issue of BBC History Magazine is now on sale. In our new edition Christopher Clark explains how the assassination of Franz Ferdinand sent...
mattelton
[4th October 2012 - 09.54]
Tests on artificial toes discovered at a site near present-day Luxor in Egypt show that they are the world's earliest prosthetics, according to...
Eugene Byrne
[4th October 2012 - 09.38]
Every year, the Gridiron Club, an organisation of journalists in Washington DC, holds a dinner. This is a prestigious white-tie affair attended by...
Joe Adams
[28th September 2012 - 09.11]
Casts of dead bodies, the preserved remains of a dog and a nearly 2,000-year-old loaf of bread are among 250 relics of Pompeii and Herculaneum to be...
Charlotte Hodgman
[28th September 2012 - 08.52]
To mark the 200th anniversary of Britain's gas industry, National Grid has pulled together a host of archive footage to create the film below. From a...
BBC History Magazine
[27th September 2012 - 14.57]
Eric Ives OBE, a leading Tudor historian and contributor to BBC History Magazine, has died. He was 81 years old.
Ives was emeritus professor of...
Eugene Byrne
[26th September 2012 - 07.39]
"Eisenhower admitted that the budget can't be balanced and McCarthy said the communists are taking over. You don't know what to worry about...
mattelton
[20th September 2012 - 09.47]
A scrap of papyrus dating from the fourth century AD includes text that makes reference to the 'wife of Jesus', according to a Harvard academic....
Suzannah Lipscomb
[14th September 2012 - 17.55]
It is not surprising that for centuries Richard III has been synonymous with evil tyranny and physical deformity. To argue otherwise has been to...
mattelton
[13th September 2012 - 10.46]
Archaeologists searching for the grave of Richard III say that there is "strong circumstantial evidence" that remains discovered in a...
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