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

"She had the vision of women leading lives every bit as full as any man," says Jeremy Corbyn of Mary Wollstonecraft. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

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