November 2017

Articles from the November 2017 issue of BBC History Magazine

Guy Fawkes and the men behind the gunpowder plot. Guy Fawkes, best known of the conspirators, is third from the right. (Print Collector/Getty Images)

Why the gunpowder plot went up in smoke

Gertrude Bell. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

My history hero: Gertrude Bell (1868–1926)

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Amber Fort, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Jaipur, India

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A brooch commemorating Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee in 1897. Queen Victoria is surrounded by a gold frame, ribbons and laces. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

The Victorian shadow over the 20th century

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Portrait of Richard III. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Did fear drive Richard III to the throne?

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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, depicted in an undated Communist poster. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

The red dawn: the October Revolution

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El Alamein battle in the Libyan desert, c1942. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Second World War

El Alamein: the line in the sand

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Historian David Starkey.

Starkey on the Reformation

Great Court, British Museum, Bloomsbury, London. (Getty Images)

Heaven… on Earth

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The Royal Opera House. (Getty Images)

History Explorer: Opera in Britain

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Niall Ferguson. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

Niall Ferguson on The Square and the Tower

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D6XD6R Amber Fort - landscape with elephants on the Jaleb Chowk courtyard and main gate of Amber Fort, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

My favourite place: Jaipur

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