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

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Lettice Knollys

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

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"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)

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The Carbonniere Tower

My favourite place: the Camargue, France

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The Charles II Royal Oak

History explorer: Charles II’s great escape

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Historian Simon Schama.

Books interview: Simon Schama

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A portrait of Caroline of Ansbach

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

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

Dorothea Bate: A fearless fossil hunter

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Blitz

Second World War

The cruel cost of the Blitz

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

The Library Black faces of Tudor England

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General Edmund Allenby walks into Jerusalem on 11 December 1917

The Balfour Declaration: Britain’s unholy mess

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

My favourite place: the Camargue, France