August 2010

Articles from the August 2010 issue of BBC History Magazine

A portrait of Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale: nursing by numbers

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

The man best associated with the new style of landscape gardening was William Kent (c1686–1748), a Yorkshire-born artist and architect. (Public domain)

The English landscape garden

Extract from Domesday Book.

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