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    August 2014

    Articles from the August 2014 issue of BBC History Magazine

    Augustus Caesar was named named as the principal heir of Julius Caesar. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)
    Roman

    The bloody rise of Augustus

    The maquis du Vercors were a rural group of French resistance fighters who converged on the Vercors plateau in south-east France. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
    Second World War

    The cruel victory: Paddy Ashdown on the French resistance during the Second World War

    An American recruitment poster. “US forces showed an impressive ability to learn at speed,” says Nick Lloyd. (© Getty)
    First World War

    The great misconceptions of the First World War

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    A photograph of a crowd in Berlin celebrating Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany's proclamation of war against Great Britain, August 1914. (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
    First World War

    The Library 1914: Countdown to catastrophe

    Archaeologist Howard Carter opens the coffin of Tutankhamun. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
    Ancient Egypt

    What killed Tutankhamun?

    Portrait of Hendrik Witbooi
    Victorian

    My history hero: Hendrik Witbooi (born c1830)

    Kathryn Ferry, UK seaside expert in Hastings, East Sussex
    First World War

    History explorer: The interwar holiday revolution

    The ruins of the Temple of Apollo, Delphi, Greece. (Getty Images)
    Ancient Greece

    My favourite place: Delphi, Greece

    An illustration of a Tudor street
    Tudor

    “Mooke, fylthe and other vyle things”: Tudor dirt and dung

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