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    2. June 2018

    June 2018

    Articles from the June 2018 issue of BBC History Magazine

    Battle of Barnet: This lively, if inaccurate, 15th- century illustration of the shows a coronet- wearing Edward skewering Warwick with his lance
    Medieval

    The battle of Barnet, 1471: the Wars of the Roses clash that killed the Kingmaker

    A c1536 portrait of Jane Seymour by Hans Holbein the Younger.
    Tudor

    Alison Weir on Henry VIII’s third wife: “Jane Seymour had the courage to stand up for what she cared about”

    A statue of Æthelflæd – erected in Tamworth to mark the 1,000th anniversary of her fortifying the town. (Photo by Chris Gibson/Alamy Stock Photo
    Anglo-Saxon

    Aethelflaed: who was the warrior queen who crushed the Vikings?

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    The wrecked remains of an Allied glider that participated in Market Garden
    Second World War

    Why Operation Market Garden, the Allies’ battle for Arnhem, was a disaster in the planning

    N Dubois de Chémant demonstrating his own, and a grotesque female patient's false teeth, to a prospective male patient with grossly disfigured teeth. (Wellcome Collection)
    Georgian

    The Library A bite-sized history of dentistry

    A Georgian painting depicting children leaving for school
    Georgian

    The Georgian guide to perfect parenting

    A 14th-century Flemish illustration depicting the burying of plague victims in coffins in Tournai in 1349. (Photo by Granger Historical Picture Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)
    Medieval

    Black Death: “Oh father, why have you abandoned me?”

    The beach at Lyme Regis, on the Jurassic Coast of Devon and Dorset, has attracted fossil hunters for centuries. (Getty Images)
    Georgian

    Where history happened: Georgian fossil hunting

    Medieval buildings lining the Dijver canal in the centre of the Belgian city of Bruges. (Getty Images)
    General Modern

    My favourite place: Bruges, Belgium

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    Freddie Mercury – born Farrokh Bulsara – on stage at Brondby Hallen, Denmark. (Photo by Jorgen Angel/Redferns/Getty Images)
    20th Century

    My history hero: Aled Jones chooses Freddie Mercury (1946–91)

    A painting depicting the battle of the White Mountain
    Stuart

    Europe’s apocalypse: the Thirty Years’ War

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