March 2016

Articles from the March 2016 issue of BBC History Magazine

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First World War

The Easter Rising: when Ireland went to war

20 Feb 2013, Air Itam, Malaysia --- Chinese lanterns at Kek Lok Si temple, George Town, Penang, Malaysia --- Image by © Inti St Clair/Blend Images/Corbis

My favourite place: Penang, Malaysia

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History explorer Blenheim Palace and Capability Brown

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My history hero: Bhimrao Ambedkar (1891–1956)

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How people make the past

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The Library The Tudor sex guide

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The Tudors’ unlikely allies

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The dark side of Elizabethan England

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Heyday: the 1850s and the dawn of the global age

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The wild man of County Carlow

Illustration by Clair Rossiter

The Library What was the best meal in history?

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Michael Wood on… that Cecil Rhodes statue