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    April 2017

    Articles from the April 2017 issue of BBC History Magazine

    Veteran cars – a 1898 Benz and an early Panhard – outside Glover Brothers Cycle Makers, c1900. (Photo by National Motor Museum/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
    Victorian

    How the Victorians ruined the world

    Verona skyline with river Adige, bridges, Santa Anastasia Church and Torre dei Lamberti or Lamberti Tower at dawn view from Castel San Pietro, Italy. (Getty Images)
    Renaissance

    My favourite place: Verona, Italy

    Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto, a PPP candidate (Pakistan People's Party), campaigning from the sun roof of a car. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)
    General Modern

    My history hero: Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007)

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    Procession of Charles II between the Tower of London and Westminster on the eve of his coronation, 1661. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)
    Stuart

    1660: The year that changed everything

    A group of women cycling along the beach at Newquay, c1923. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
    General Modern

    Choppers, burners and boneshakers: the rise of British cycling

    A view of Hampton Court Palace, London. (Getty Images)
    Tudor

    Simon Thurley on the architectural history of the Tudors

    Italian prisoners of war being escorted under armed guard to work on a farm, 13 September 1941. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
    Second World War

    British PoW camps

    Demonstrators block the gates of the Greenham Common Airbase, tied together with string. The demonstrators were members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) group. (Getty Images)
    General Modern

    The nuclear 1980s

    From left: Fern Riddell, a cultural historian specialising in sex and suffrage; Janina Ramirez, a broadcaster and historian based at the University of Oxford; Joann Fletcher, a broadcaster and writer, and an Egyptologist at the University of York; Anna Whitelock, a historian of royal and early modern history, based at Royal Holloway, University of London. (Photography by Helen Atkinson)
    General Modern

    What is it like to be a female historian in the 21st century?

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    Theodore Roosevelt visiting a US army camp, c1918. (Photo by The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
    First World War

    The Library The great American U-turn

    Portrait of Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset and Lord Protector of England, 1535. From the New York Public Library. (Photo via Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)
    Tudor

    Edward Seymour: the fall of the dithering dictator

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