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    January 2019

    Articles from the January 2019 issue of BBC History Magazine

    French prime minister Georges Clemenceau (left), US president Woodrow Wilson (centre) and British PM David Lloyd George at the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919. The treaty's provisions have been blamed for causing the Second World War. (Image by Topfoto)
    First World War

    Did the Versailles peace treaty trigger another world war?

    Mary Stuart, shown here in a painting after Nicholas Hilliard, might have been a good queen, says Kate Williams, but the odds were stacked against her. (Image by Superstock)
    Elizabethan

    Who betrayed Mary, Queen Of Scots?

    The president of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt and his staff gathered together in New York to find a solution to the economic crisis. 1935. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
    20th Century

    Icons: the game changers of the 20th century

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    Foundations of a bath house at the Roman fort on Bar Hill in central Scotland. (Photo by Alamy)
    Roman

    History explorer Roman Britain’s final frontier

    HMS Bittern on fire and severely damaged after a German air attack in Namsos fjord, 30 April 1940. Both sides sustained heavy losses in the battle of Norway but the German navy was less able to absorb these than its British foe. (Photo by Topfoto)
    Second World War

    The battle for Norway, 1940: the forgotten Battle of Britain

    For 10th-century warriors, the appearance of wolves, ravens and eagles on the battlefield meant an unlucky few had been chosen to die. Eric Lacey digs into a grisly superstition. (Illustration by Ross Craig for BBC History Magazine)
    Anglo-Saxon

    The Library Anglo-Saxon beasts of death

    A 1646 engraving of John Lilburne behind bars. The outspoken critic of successive governments spent half his life imprisoned or in exile. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
    Stuart

    John Lilburne: the rebel they couldn’t gag

    Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, supervises the removal of fittings from a room at Kensington Palace, which she had occupied as lady in waiting to Queen Anne of England. The wife of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, and a trusted confidante to Queen Anne, she was politically highly influential until her dismissal in 1711. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
    Stuart

    5 women who challenged the Westminster boys’ club in the 18th century

    Wat Pra Singh is among the most visited temples in Chiang Mai, Thailand. (Photo by Getty Images)
    General ancient history

    My favourite place: Chiang Mai, Thailand

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    Plantagenet

    My history hero: Robert Lindsay chooses Richard III

    Paul Morland. (Photo by Frank Monks)
    General Modern

    Books interview with Paul Morland: “Even the Spanish flu pandemic wasn’t enough to stop population growth”

    Queen Anne, based on a work by Sir Godfrey Kneller, c1702–10. Anne's reign saw women take centre stage in fierce political debates. (Photo by Bridgeman/National Trust Photographic Library)
    Stuart

    Queen Anne’s feuding favourites

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