January 2014

Articles from the January 2014 issue of BBC History Magazine

A portrait of Charles I.

Has history been unfair to Charles I?

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Nelson Mandela

Mandela: the 20th century’s greatest leader?

A stained glass depiction of Yolande of Aragon. (Creative Commons)

My history hero: Yolanda of Aragon (d1442)

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(Illustration: Jonty Clark for BBC History Magazine)

Ye olde travel guide: Turin, 1887

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Historian Miles Russell.

History explorer: Extravagance in Roman Britain

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Pillage of Jerusalem

Crusading for God and gold

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Troops on a night raid during the First World War

First World War

Jeremy Paxman: “The war finished Britain off in many respects”

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Nelson Mandela and wife Winnie Mandela upon his release from prison. (Photo by Allan Tannenbaum/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

10 photographs that made history

Author Linda Colley.

Acts of union and disunion

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The Great Ulster Rally in Hyde Park, April 1914.

First World War

1914: Why the war caught Britain cold

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The front cover of a 1924 edition of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf'

Second World War

Beyond the Hitler diaries

Protesters behind the perimeter fence at
Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station. (Photo by London News Pictures/REX)

Can Britain make nuclear power work this time around?