December 2017

Articles from the December 2017 issue of BBC History Magazine

Victorian surgeon Robert Liston during an operation

An appointment at the house of death: the horror of the early Victorian hospital

Illustation by Femke de Jong.

Michael Wood on Anglo-Saxon Christianity

Lettice Knollys

A Tudor love triangle: Elizabeth I, Lettice Knollys and Robert Dudley

My history hero: Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–97)

The Carbonniere Tower

My favourite place: the Camargue, France

The Charles II Royal Oak

History explorer: Charles II’s great escape

Historian Simon Schama.

Books interview: Simon Schama

A portrait of Caroline of Ansbach

The Library Caroline of Ansbach: Politician, schemer, patron, sex symbol

Dorothea Bate. (Illustration: Stavros Damos for BBC History Magazine)

The Library Dorothea Bate: A fearless fossil hunter

Blitz

Second World War

The cruel cost of the Blitz

John Blanke. (Illustration: Rose Wilkinson for BBC History Magazine)

Black faces of Tudor England

General Edmund Allenby walks into Jerusalem on 11 December 1917

The Balfour Declaration: Britain’s unholy mess

The Carbonniere near Aigues Mortes, Saint Laurent d'Aigouze, Gard,White horses in the Camargue, France

My favourite place: the Camargue, France