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    May 2017

    Articles from the May 2017 issue of BBC History Magazine

    Annie Gray portrait by Ian Farrell
    Victorian

    Annie Gray “For Queen Victoria, food was a way of exploring the world”

    King Arthur and his knights return to Camelot (Photo by: Christophel Fine Art/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
    Medieval

    Q&A Where was Camelot?

    Portrait of Martin Luther by Lucas Cranach, 1543. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)
    Tudor

    Europe’s holy war: how the Reformation convulsed a continent

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    Illustration by Sarah Young
    Anglo-Saxon

    Ælfthryth: England’s first queen

    Entrance to Lincoln Castle. (Dreamstime)
    Medieval

    Lincoln: the battle that gave birth to medieval England

    Portrait of Richard Wagner, 1883. (Photo By DEA/A Dagli Orti/De Agostini/Getty Images)
    Victorian

    My History Hero: Richard Wagner (1813–83)

    Elizabeth Fry visiting Newgate Prison, 1926. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)
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    Elizabeth Fry: the great reformer

    The Spanish town of Guernica after the bombing by German and Italian aircraft, 1937. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)
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    Guernica

    The Knights of the Round (Miniature from La Quête du Saint Graal et la Mort d'Arthus), c1220. Found in the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
    Medieval

    King Arthur: the big questions

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    Portico entrance of Oxford's famous Ashmolean Museum. (Dreamstime)
    Georgian

    History explorer The history of British museums

    The Giralda tower and cathedral seen across the Plaza de la Alianza, Seville, Spain. (Getty Images)
    Medieval

    My favourite place: Seville, Spain

    Travelling Mass set, c1535, consisting of a silver-gilt chalice; a paten (Communion plate) and a glass bottle for wine, with a leather box in which to carry them. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
    Tudor

    Henry VIII’s savage Reformation

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