August 2010

Articles from the August 2010 issue of BBC History Magazine

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The Library Florence Nightingale: nursing by numbers

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Is our long love affair with the fireplace bad news for the planet?

25 Jul 2001, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, UK --- Blenheim Palace and Parkland --- Image by © Skyscan/Corbis

The English landscape garden

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Domesday Book: The most important document in English history?

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August’s historic trips… Ten Things To Do

‘Smugglers', c1785, from ‘Adventures by sea from art of old time’ by Basil Lubbock. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

Smugglers and the birth of Britain’s consumer society