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    2. February 2015

    February 2015

    Articles from the February 2015 issue of BBC History Magazine

    Pancake day celebrations
    Medieval

    The history of Shrove Tuesday: why do we eat pancakes?

    BL52779 Roy 2 B VII f.78 Reaping corn harvest in August, from the Queen Mary Psalter, c.1310-20 (vellum) by English School, (14th century); British Library, London, UK; © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved; PERMISSION REQUIRED FOR NON EDITORIAL USAGE; English,  out of copyright

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    Medieval

    What did Magna Carta mean to the English in 1215?

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

    The Victorians’ grisly fascination with murder

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    The medieval city of Carcassonne
    Period

    My favourite place: Languedoc, France

    William Hogarth
    Georgian

    My history hero: William Hogarth (1697–1764)

    A British major pictured in German captivity
    First World War

    “How I fell captive to the Germans”: the experience of First World War PoWs

    Parts of the Magna Carta
    Medieval

    The amazing legacy of Magna Carta

    A demonstrator vents his spleen at police officers during an anti-Vietnam War rally in London's Grosvenor Square
    20th Century

    Britain at war over Vietnam

    Princess Sophia Duleep Singh
    Victorian

    Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary

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    Dinner at a Victorian workhouse
    Victorian

    History explorer: Life in the Victorian workhouse

    A statue of Aphrodite
    Ancient Greece

    Christianity’s rocky relationship with sex

    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.
    Renaissance

    In pictures: Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

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    General Modern

    In pictures: a history of British elections

    LMG876025 Peggy Jean Laughing, 1921 (bronze) (see also 876023-6) by Epstein, Jacob (1880-1959); 23.5x21x23 cm; © Leeds Museums and Art Galleries (City Museum) UK; English,  in copyright

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    In pictures: Sir Jacob Epstein – Babies and Bloomsbury

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    Victorian

    In pictures: the anatomy of crime

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