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2 October

A portrait of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York

Like father, like son: Richard Plantagenet and Richard III

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1 October

Mário Soares of the Socialist Party basks in public adulation after becoming prime minister in the election of 1976. (Photo by Getty Images)

Your guide to the Carnation Revolution

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November 2021 issue of BBC History Magazine out now!

BBC History Revealed November 2021

November 2021 issue of BBC History Revealed out now!

Coming up in the next issue of BBC History Magazine…

Coming up in the December 2021 issue of BBC History Magazine

Greek soldier Pheidippides arrives in Athens with news of the Greek victory over the Persians at Marathon, only to die on the spot

Pheidippides: is the ancient Greek marathon runner remembered for the wrong run?

A statue of Oliver Cromwell stares downwards, against a red background

The dark truth about Oliver Cromwell

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30 September

Dev Patel stars as Sir Gawain in The Green Knight an adaptation of the Arthurian romance Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

“An intoxicating triumph true to the grandeur of the poem”: a historian’s review of The Green Knight

John of Gaunt shown in a c16th-century portrait

John of Gaunt: The man who would be king

Illustration of the French colonial army departing to fight under Colonel Marchand

What if... Britain and France went to war during the 1898 Fashoda Incident?

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29 September

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28 September