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    Christmas 2013

    Articles from the Christmas 2013 issue of BBC History Magazine

    Tom Cribb lands a punch on Tom Molineaux while Molineaux's trainer, Bill Richmond, looks on. Molineaux got the upper hand in the pair's first fight – which ended in controversy when a mob stormed the ring – but was defeated in this, the 1811 rematch. (Edward Gooch/Edward Gooch/Getty Images)
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    The ‘Black Terror’: the story of Britain’s first black sports star

    Tom Smith's Surprise Cosaques, Christmas Crackers 1878. (Image by Getty)
    Victorian

    The history of Christmas crackers

    Tourists at Stonehenge
    General prehistory

    Stonehenge: a prehistoric tourist trap

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    Japanese troops celebrate the capture of a British artillery position, Hong Kong, December 1941 (Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)
    General Modern

    The lion and the rising sun: Britain and Japan’s 400-year relationship

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    My history hero: Khudadad Khan (1888-1971)

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    Deadly beasts of Tudor England

    Illustration by Jonty Clark.
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    Ye olde travel guide: Prague 1600

    Allied convoy PQ 17 is attacked by a German torpedo aircraft on its way across the Arctic Ocean, c1942. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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    “The worst journey in the world”: the Arctic convoys of the Second World War

    This detail from the Gundestrup Cauldron – a richly decorated silver vessel thought to date from the second-century BC – depicts a Celtic god or druid surrounded by beasts. (Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)
    Roman

    The genius of the Celts

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    Tourists at Stonehenge. We have no better idea today than 200 years ago what the people who erected these sarsens truly believed. (Getty Images)
    General prehistory

    Prehistoric religion: a pagan riddle we will never solve

    The Black Death, the effects of which are pictured in this medieval miniature, took little more than seven years to wipe out around half of mankind. (DeAgostini/Getty Images)
    Medieval

    History explorer: the catastrophe of the Black Death

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