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    2. December 2013

    December 2013

    Articles from the December 2013 issue of BBC History Magazine

    Elizabeth of York has been overshadowed by more vigorous, proactive queens – unfairly so, in the eyes of Alison Weir. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
    Tudor

    Elizabeth of York: a Tudor of rare talent

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    20th Century

    What if JFK had lived?

    Illustration by Jonty Clark.
    Victorian

    Ye Olde Travel Guide: Ballarat 1854

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    Simon Thurley at Cromford Mills in Derbyshire. It was here, in 1771, that Richard Arkwright set up his first water-powered mills,
    Georgian

    History Explorer: the rise of the factory

    Sport offered the two sides the perfect stage on which to get one over on the 'enemy', says Dominic Sandbrook. Pictured here is a queue for a football match between Arsenal and Dynamo Moscow. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
    Cold War

    The Cold War in your living room

    An effigy of Henry III, king of England between 1207 and 1272, on his tomb in Westminster Abbey. (Angelo Hornak/Corbis via Getty Images)
    Plantagenet

    The Plantagenet royal dynasty: England’s ultimate family drama

    Second World War

    My history hero: Bernard Montgomery

    Hamo Thornycroft's 1901 statue of King Alfred the Great in Winchester. Acknowledging the good fortune played a role in Alfred's reign is important, says Alex Burghart,
    Anglo-Saxon

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

    Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, whose assassination prompted the outbreak of the First World War. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
    First World War

    Books interview: Margaret MacMillan on the First World War

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    John and Jackie Kennedy shaking hands with a crowd. Jackie continued to fight her husband's corner after his death, says Mark White. (Photo by Art Rickerby/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
    20th Century

    JFK: style over substance?

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