August 2017

Articles from the August 2017 issue of BBC History Magazine

Stretcher bearers at Passchendaele, August 1917. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

First World War

The forgotten triumphs of Passchendaele

Northern lights (aurora borealis) dances over an abandoned cabin in Tromsø, Northern Norway. (Photo by Hanneke Luijting via Getty Images)

My favourite place: Arctic Norway

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A boy sitting on a rock ledge above a refugee camp, October 1947. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

The bloody road to partition

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Woodcut of a meal shared at a witches' Sabbath. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Ronald Hutton on the Witch

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High Victorian style garden designed by James Bateman. (Getty Images)

History Explorer: Victorian gardens

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Vienna Plague Hospital, 1679. (Getty Images)

The Library Women of the plague

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Edward the Black Prince receiving from his father, King Edward III, the conquered provinces of France gained during the Hundred Years' War. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Prince of Darkness?

Night view of people jammed into Times Square, New York, celebrating the end of the war in Europe. (Photo by Herbert Gehr/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty

Second World War

Was 1945 the world’s year zero?

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A proponent of same-sex marriage protests outside the Houses of Parliament, 3 June 2013. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

A Gay Revolution?

An illustration of a public execution at Newgate, London, late 18th century. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

A deadly obsession in Victorian London

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Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), 1797. Artist: Abbott, Lemuel Francis (1760-1802)

My history hero: Horatio Nelson (1758–1805)

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