April 2017

Articles from the April 2017 issue of BBC History Magazine

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How the Victorians ruined the world

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My favourite place: Verona, Italy

Benazir Bhutto on the campaign trail in December 2007, the same month that she was assassinated. (Photo by Getty Images)

My history hero: Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007)

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1660: The year that changed everything

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Choppers, burners and boneshakers: the rise of British cycling

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Simon Thurley on the architectural history of the Tudors

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Second World War

The Library British PoW camps

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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)

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

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First World War

The great American U-turn

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Edward Seymour: the fall of the dithering dictator