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August 2016
August 2016
Articles from the August 2016 issue of BBC History Magazine
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1816: the year without summer
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Reign of the red terror: Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: the medieval queen who took on Europe’s most powerful men
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Why has Britain decided to leave the EU?
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History explorer: the Cold War
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My favourite place: Vézelay, France
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My history hero: David Cameron chooses Douglas Bader (1910–82)
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Les Parisiennes: how the women of Paris lived, loved and died in the 1940s