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    March 2018

    Articles from the March 2018 issue of BBC History Magazine

    A portrait of the young Elizabeth I. (Photo by Art Collection 2/Alamy Stock Photo)
    Elizabethan

    Elizabeth I’s personality: the unfathomable queen

    Crowds protest in Tehran
    20th Century

    Opinion: is Iran a nation at war with itself?

    Members of the Home Guard train racing pigeons as messengers in Blackburn, July 1940. Soon, carrier birds like this would be supplying vital intelligence on German arms factories and troop movements in occupied Europe. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
    Second World War

    The pigeons’ war on Hitler

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    The Spring Offensive, 1918. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)
    First World War

    Germany’s final gamble

    The Sultanahmet district in Istanbul, Turkey, which is classified as World Heritage by UNESCO. (Photo by DOZIER Marc via Getty Images)
    General ancient history

    A new civilisation rises

    Benjamin Tillett, organiser of the Docker's Union and leader of the London Transport Worker's strike in 1911, addressing a rally of the strikers. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
    20th Century

    The essay: Britain’s cautious revolutionaries

    An engraving from Ulrich Molitor’s ‘On witches and female soothsayers’, depicting witches bringing down the rain. Germany, 15th century. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)
    General ancient history

    A spell-binding history of witches

    Harold Godwinson is proclaimed king of England in the Bayeux Tapestry. It may have been commissioned by a Norman but this magnificent artwork repeatedly acknowledges the English leader’s piety and courage. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)
    Norman

    Why is Harold a hero of the Bayeux Tapestry?

    Radio Times cover, 1931. (Photo by Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo)
    20th Century

    Radio nation

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    Winston Churchill, 1941. (Photo by War Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)
    Second World War

    My history hero: Winston Churchill (1874–1965)

    Wendy Webster. (Photo by Claire Wood/BBC)
    Second World War

    Books interview with Wendy Webster: “In its finest hour, Britain’s population was multiethnic and multinational”

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