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    December 2015

    Articles from the December 2015 issue of BBC History Magazine

    A photo which was believed to be of the Loch Ness Monster
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    The quest for the Loch Ness Monster

    Britain’s first self-service supermarket, Sainsbury’s in Croydon
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    A brief history of shopping

    Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists
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    The six ages of China

    John F Kennedy pictured in 1957
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    My history hero: John F Kennedy (1917–63)

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    History explorer: Britain’s coal industry

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    A 1628 engraving of the Spanish siege of the Dutch city of Breda
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    Books interview with Mary Beard

    Illustration by Sarah Young for BBC History Magazine
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