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August 2016

Articles from the August 2016 issue of BBC History Magazine

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Medieval

The Library Eleanor of Aquitaine: the medieval queen who took on Europe’s most powerful men

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General Modern

The Library Why has Britain decided to leave the EU?

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Cold War

History explorer: the Cold War

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Medieval

My favourite place: Vézelay, France

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Second World War

My history hero: David Cameron chooses Douglas Bader (1910–82)

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20th Century

Reign of the red terror

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Stuart

Soldiers of the Apocalypse

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20th Century

The running revolutionary

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Second World War

The Library Holidays with Hitler

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Ancient Greece

Global encounters of the ancient kind

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20th Century

The Library Les Parisiennes: how the women of Paris lived, loved and died in the 1940s

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Georgian

1816: a year without summer