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    July 2017

    Articles from the July 2017 issue of BBC History Magazine

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    Early medieval

    Was King John murdered?

    Crew members of the French destroyer Bourrasque, sunk by mine at Dunkirk, are hauled aboard a British vessel from their sinking life-raft. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
    Second World War

    Dunkirk: 6 big questions on a remarkable rescue mission

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    Second World War

    The women who flew for Hitler: an interview with Clare Mulley

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    Industrial revolution

    History explorer: The power of British iron

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    An Iranian Jewish woman walks past the graves of Polish Jews who died in Iran during and after the Second World War
    Second World War

    The Library The incredible tale of the WW2 Poles who fought back

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    England’s migrant crisis

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    First World War

    Innocence under fire

    West Berlin inhabitants wave at the newly erected Berlin Wall, 1961. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)
    General Modern

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