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    December 2019

    Expert history articles from the December 2019 issue of BBC History Magazine

    The Parnethon, Athens
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    How to build a democracy (Athenian-style)

    George Frederic Watts' 1846 painting 'Alfred Inciting the Saxons to Prevent the Landing of the Danes'
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    Michael Wood “As a racism row rumbles on, is it time to retire the term ‘Anglo-Saxon’?”

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    Travel to Luxembourg: rural beauty and Gothic grandeur

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    'Yorktown' sustains a hit during the battle of Midway. The US aircraft carrier sank three days later but, by then, the Japanese had accepted that their attempt to land a war-winning blow had failed. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
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    How miraculous was the battle of Midway?

    Black and white image of Russian soldiers using a canon
    First World War

    Trial by fire: how a fortress siege changed the course of World War One

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    Books interview with Nicola Tallis: “Margaret Beaufort wielded enormous power. She was a queen in all but name”

    The footprint of Old Sarum cathedral
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    Explore Old Sarum: the regal and the rotten

    A c1860 depiction of Wentworth Works steel manufacturer in Sheffield
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    Why Britain punched above its weight

    Tutankhamun's blue and gold funerary mask
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    Tutankhamun unmasked: 7 intriguing truths about the pharaoh and his treasures

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    6 novels that captured life in Britain

    A contemporary portrait of scientist Ada Lovelace
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    My history hero Konnie Huq chooses Ada Lovelace (1815–52)

    A wooden cross marks the spot, just over 20 miles west of Newcastle, where Oswald apparently raised his own cross before ambushing Cadwallon. If the Anglo-Saxon warlord's attack had failed, writes Edoardo Albert, England might now be a lot smaller. (Photo by Getty Images)
    Anglo-Saxon

    Hell in Heavenfield: the Anglo-Saxon battle “as important as Hastings”

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