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Christmas 2013
Christmas 2013
Articles from the Christmas 2013 issue of BBC History Magazine
Victorian
The history of Christmas crackers
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Prehistoric religion: a pagan riddle we will never solve?
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“The worst journey in the world”: the Arctic convoys of the Second World War
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The ‘Black Terror’: the story of Britain's first black sports star
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Stonehenge: a prehistoric tourist trap
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The lion and the rising sun: Britain and Japan's 400-year relationship
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My history hero: Khudadad Khan (1888-1971)
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Deadly beasts of Tudor England
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Ye olde travel guide: Prague 1600
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The genius of the Celts
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History explorer: the catastrophe of the Black Death
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