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December 2017

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December 2017

Articles from the December 2017 issue of BBC History Magazine

The surgeon Robert Liston prepares to cut open a patient in the first half of the 19th century. Known as the “fastest knife in the west end”, Liston could remove a leg in less than 30 seconds. For most patients, however, the agony was more prolonged. (Wellcome Library, London)

An appointment at the house of death: the horror of the early Victorian hospital

An illustration of fossil hunter Dorothea Bate

Dorothea Bate: A fearless fossil hunter

A portrait of Caroline of Ansbach

Caroline of Ansbach: why George II's remarkable queen was the first iron lady of British politics

Lettice Knollys

A Tudor love triangle: Elizabeth I, Lettice Knollys and Robert Dudley

Illustation by Femke de Jong.

Michael Wood on Anglo-Saxon Christianity

History heroJeremy Corbyn chooses Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–97)

The Carbonniere Tower

My favourite place: the Camargue, France

The Charles II Royal Oak

ExploreCharles II's great escape

Historian Simon Schama.

Books interview: Simon Schama

Blitz

Second World War

The cruel cost of the Blitz: how did everyday Britons rebuild their lives?

Black faces of Tudor England

General Edmund Allenby walks into Jerusalem on 11 December 1917

The Balfour Declaration: Britain’s unholy mess

My favourite place: the Camargue, France

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