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June 2012

Articles from the June 2012 issue of BBC History Magazine

Industrial might: Blenheim bombers in production in England, late 1939. The Allies’ combined industrial strength proved too much for the Axis. (Getty Images) 
Second World War

The Library The world in flames

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Elizabethan

How Elizabeth I used parties as a weapon against the Catholic threat to her throne

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Stuart

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Meknes 1681

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Victorian

My history hero: J Meade Falkner (1858-1932)

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Georgian

How Napoleon was humbled

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Medieval

Where history happened: pilgrimage

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Medieval

A legacy of the lionheart

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General Modern

Fighting Scots

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Second World War

Dear Mr Hitler