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    2. November 2017

    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)
    Stuart

    Why did the 1605 gunpowder plot fail? 9 big questions about the conspiracy to blow up parliament

    Michael Wood explores the shifting meaning of statues in society. (Illustration by Femke de Jong for BBC History Magazine)
    Georgian

    Michael Wood "These ‘history wars’ over statues are really about something bigger: about different views of the past, and who controls it"

    A portrait of Richard III. Was the last Yorkist king a usurper? Historian John Ashdown-Hill explains why this is a myth. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)
    Medieval

    Did fear drive Richard III to the throne?

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    Gertrude Bell. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
    20th Century

    My history hero: Gertrude Bell (1868–1926)

    Amber Fort, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. (Getty Images)
    20th Century

    My favourite place: Jaipur, India

    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)
    Victorian

    The Victorian shadow over the 20th century

    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, depicted in an undated Communist poster. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)
    20th Century

    The red dawn: the October Revolution

    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

    Historian David Starkey.
    Tudor

    Starkey on the Reformation

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

    Heaven… on Earth

    The Royal Opera House. (Getty Images)
    Victorian

    History Explorer: Opera in Britain

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

    Niall Ferguson on The Square and the Tower

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

    My favourite place: Jaipur

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