August 2010

Articles from the August 2010 issue of BBC History Magazine

Extract from Domesday Book.

Your guide to the Domesday Book: the most important document in English history?

A portrait of Florence Nightingale

Nursing by numbers: how Florence Nightingale campaigned for better conditions

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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

‘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