March 2013

Articles from the March 2013 issue of BBC History Magazine

Hitler meets members of the Reich Labour Service. (Photo by AKG)

Second World War

Q&A: Are any laws made by the Nazi regime still in use?

Gaol fever illustration.

What is gaol fever and how was it caused and spread?

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Q&A: How many years of its existence has Britain been at war?

The Calcutta Cup, a rugby union trophy awarded to the winner of the annual Six Nations Championship match between England and Scotland. (David Rogers - RFU/The RFU Collection via Getty Images)

Scotland v England: The world’s first international rugby match

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Dr Jo Appleby, a lecturer in bioarchaeology at Leicester University, points to an image of the skull of King Richard III. (Photo by ANDREW COWIE/AFP/Getty Images)

Richard III: what does the find mean for history?

Hans Holbein's portrait of the "pudgy, watchful" Thomas Cromwell. England's aristocracy never forgave this publican's son for proving that a man could govern just became he had talent, says Diarmaid MacCulloch. (Gustavo Tomsich/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Thomas Cromwell: a thug in a doublet?

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A portrait of Henry V of England. The Treaty if Troyes, signed in 1420, saw Henry named Charles's regent; by marrying the latter's daughter, Katherine, Henry secured his position as heir to the throne. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Behaving badly: Henry V’s misspent youth

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Portrait of Richard III of England. The discovery of his body under a Leicester car park in 2012 has been "one of the greatest breakthroughs of our age," says Mark Ormrod. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Where now for Richard III?

"Trying to uncover the noises our ancestors made, what they heard, is key to building a picture of what their lives were really like," says David Hendy. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

A noisy history of the world

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Abraham Lincoln in 1863. The 16th president of the United States "understood the value of hard work, had deep beliefs and pursued them," says Alastair Campbell. (Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

My history hero: Abraham Lincoln (1809–65)

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One of the two 19th-century bronze sphinxes sited next to Cleopatra's Needle, London's oldest monument. (Peter Dazeley/Getty Images)

Where history happened: Egypt in Britain

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The industrial revolution increased the amount of work available for both the old and the young. The welfare of child workers, in particular, suffered from the effects of long and consecutive days of employment, says Emma Griffin. (SSPL/Getty Images)

Industrial revolution

The industrial revolution: an age of opportunity

An oil painting depicting the battle of Camperdown, a "crushing British victory" over the Batavian (Dutch) Republic in the North Sea. (Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Tales from Nelson’s navy

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A French soldier standing in the entrance to a trench. (Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

First World War

Holding the line: France in the First World War

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