November 2015

Articles from the November 2015 issue of BBC History Magazine

WARNING: Embargoed for publication until 21/07/2015 - Programme Name: The Last Kingdom - TX: n/a - Episode: generics (No. n/a) - Picture Shows: Uhtred (ALEXANDER DREYMON) - (C) Carnival Films 2015 - Photographer: Kata Vermes

How England rode the Viking storm

Michael Fish makes his first televised weather forecast in 1974. (Photo by Press Association)

4 facts about the history of the weather forecast

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History explorer: The Brontës

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Sam’s historical recipe corner: Sloe gin

Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, 1545 - 1567. Consort of Mary, Queen of Scots, by Unknown, 1564. Oil on panel. . (Photo by National Galleries Of Scotland/Getty Images)

The Library Margaret Douglas: The forgotten Tudor princess

Alice at the Mad Hatter's tea party.

In pictures: Alice in Wonderland

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The big questions of ancient Egypt

RNM286302 The Storm Increased, engraved by Francis Jukes (1745-1812) published in 1795 (aquatint) by Dodd, Robert (1748-1815) (after); © Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK; (add.info.: distressed situation of the Ramillies, when day broke with the Dutton store ship foundering; commanded by Admiral Thomas Graves (1725-1802) 1st Baron Graves; HMS Ramillies foundered during American War of Independence off Newfoundland in a hurricane;); English, out of copyright

The Royal Navy’s American disaster

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Books interview with Andrea Wulf: “Alexander von Humboldt is the forgotten father of environmentalism”

Original caption: Portrait of Hypatia (375-415AD), a Greek woman mathematician and philosopher who was murdered by an angry mob. Undated illustration. --- Image by © Corbis

My history hero: Hypatia (cAD 370–415)

23 Jan 2014, Bali, Indonesia --- Indonesia. Nusa Tenggara. Bali. Tabanan. Pura Tanah Lot. Wave crashing on Pura Tanah Lot, large rock with a Hindu temple in the ocean --- Image by © Julien GARCIA/Photononstop/Corbis

My favourite place: Bali, Indonesia

7th January 1926: Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, HQ of the Allied cryptopgraphers during WW II and where the German 'Enigma' and 'Lorenz' codes, both considered unbreakable, were deciphered. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Second World War

The Library WW2 espionage: The spies who surprised me

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The Georgian craze for popular history

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General ancient history

Who were the Celts?