December 2013

Articles from the December 2013 issue of BBC History Magazine

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The Library Elizabeth of York: a Tudor of rare talent

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What if JFK had lived?

Illustration by Jonty Clark.

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Ballarat 1854

Simon Thurley at Cromford Mills in Derbyshire. It was here, in 1771, that Richard Arkwright set up his first water-powered mills, "bringing people to a single place where they could be organised into an efficient workforce". (BBC History commissioned portrait by Mike Abrahams)

History Explorer: the rise of the factory

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The Cold War in your living room

Richard II holding a court

The Plantagenet royal dynasty: England’s ultimate family drama

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Second World War

My history hero: Bernard Montgomery

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Alfred the Great: do we overplay his ‘greatness’?

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First World War

Books interview: Margaret MacMillan on the First World War

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JFK: style over substance?