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    2. February 2015

    February 2015

    Articles from the February 2015 issue of BBC History Magazine

    Pancake day celebrations
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    The history of Shrove Tuesday

    The Victorians' grisly fascination with murder. (Illustration by Ben Jones for BBC History Magazine)
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    The Victorians’ grisly fascination with murder

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    The medieval city of Carcassonne
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    My favourite place: Languedoc, France

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    My history hero: William Hogarth (1697–1764)

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    A British major pictured in German captivity
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    “How I fell captive to the Germans”: the experience of First World War PoWs

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    Parts of the Magna Carta
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    The amazing legacy of Magna Carta

    A scene from the Queen Mary Psalter (c1310-20)
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    What did Magna Carta mean to the English in 1215?

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    A demonstrator vents his spleen at police officers during an anti-Vietnam War rally in London's Grosvenor Square
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    Britain at war over Vietnam

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    Princess Sophia Duleep Singh
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    Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary

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    Dinner at a Victorian workhouse
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    History explorer: Life in the Victorian workhouse

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    A statue of Aphrodite
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    Christianity’s rocky relationship with sex

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    Textiles. Shoes/pumps. Silk taffeta, bound with ribbon; floss silk embroidery in French knots, long and short, satin and split stitches; tied with ribbon. Ground covered by a pattern of trailing and scrolling stems with leaves and flowers, carnation, rose, etc., so arranged that there is a carnation on each toe and a rose on each heel with a five petalled blue flower above it. The left shoe has a rose, the right a carnation at each side of the seam. Silk, length, whole, 7 in, height, back, 5.25 in, height, heel, 3 in, circa 1700-circa 1749. English.
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    In pictures: Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

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    In pictures: a history of British elections

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    In pictures: Sir Jacob Epstein – Babies and Bloomsbury

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