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July 2017

Articles from the July 2017 issue of BBC History Magazine

King John hunting on horseback, 14th century. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
Early medieval

Was King John murdered?

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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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View of Halong Bay taken from the top of an island. (Getty Images)
General Modern

My favourite place: Vietnam

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Test pilot Melitta Schiller (right), Berlin, June 1943. (Photo by DRK/ullstein bild via Getty Images)
Second World War

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

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Michael Wood… on radical Islamism

Ironbridge over the river Severn in Telford, England. (Getty Images)
Industrial revolution

History explorer: The power of British iron

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Front and profile views of the bust of Roman dictator Julius Caesar (c50 BC) on display in the British Museum. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Roman

My history hero: Julius Caesar (100–44 BC)

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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 incredible tale of the WW2 Poles who fought back

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The Pilgrim Fathers leaving Delft Haven on their voyage to America, July 1620. Image dates from 1878. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)
General Early Modern

The Library England’s migrant crisis

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Two Hitler Youth who have surrendered to Allied Forces, Germany, 1945. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
First World War

Innocence under fire

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

What brought a thaw in the Cold War?

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