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    January 2011

    Articles from the January 2011 issue of BBC History Magazine

    Stonehenge: Not a henge, but certainly a stone circle, and a very long-lived centre of human activity. (Getty Images)
    Stone Age

    Your guide to Britain’s prehistoric stone circles

    Ministers vomit taxes into a large bag labelled 'budget', while the Prince Regent lurks with a list of expenses in this illustration from 1816. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)
    Medieval

    10 terrible taxes in history

    Aftermath of a smash-and-grab raid at a shop in London, c1929.  (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
    20th Century

    Ruby Sparks: the smash-and-grab gangster

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    British prime minister Edward Heath with Olympic gold medal winner Mary Peters. (Bettmann/Getty Images)
    Cold War

    Communist sport: Cold War copycats

    Scottish poet Robert Burns. His poetry captured a familiar if rapidly disappearing rural way of life, says Christopher Whatley. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
    General Modern

    Robert Burns: the people’s poet

    Christopher Clayton Hutton smuggled everything from currency to forged ID discs into German PoW camps. (Public domain)
    Second World War

    My history hero: Christopher Clayton Hutton (1893–1965)

    This engraving by Charles Grignion (1717–1810) is taken from a lost bust of John Leland at All Souls College, Oxford. Leland's bibliography of British writers is a unique record of the country's medieval literature before it was decimated by Henry VIII's agents. (Universal History Archive/Getty Images)
    Medieval

    John Leland: The man who saved medieval knowledge

    Trawler crew, c1900. (Photo by Past Pix/SSPL/Getty Images)
    20th Century

    Toilers of the deep

    The Abingdon Sword, an iron sword fragment and hilt found near Abingdon in Oxfordshire in 1874. The decoration on the sword hilt indicates this was a high status weapon dating from around AD 875. (Ashmolean Museum/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
    Viking

    Fighting the Vikings

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    Stonehenge, aerial view
    General prehistory

    Book review: A History of Ancient Britain

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