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    November 2019

    Expert articles from the November 2019 issue of BBC History Magazine

    An African man after being liberated from a slave ship by the Royal Navy, 1871. In all, more than 12 million captives were loaded onto Atlantic slavers’ vessels. (Pictures from History/Bridgeman Images)
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    A brief guide to the transatlantic slave trade

    Richard III, Edward IV and George, Duke of Clarence
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    Blood brothers: Richard III’s battle with his siblings

    Setting a trap: East German soldiers construct the Berlin Wall, 13 August 1961. The barrier was an attempt to stop the flood of Germans fleeing from east to west – yet, as scores of audacious escape bids attest, it didn't entirely succeed. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
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    Escape from East Berlin: an audacious bid to tunnel under the Berlin Wall

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    Margaret Thatcher surrounded by British soldiers of the 1st Battalion, Royal Hampshire Regiment, during a surprise visit to the Falkland Islands, January 1983. Britain has
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    How the Falklands War fired up Britain

    Seismic splits: This map from c1659 shows blood being spilled across the British Isles during the Civil Wars. Charles II's agenda for restoring order to his kingdoms was a cocktail of pragmatism, compromise and brutality.
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    How Charles II put Britain back together after the Civil War

    War criminal? William the Conqueror shown on horseback in the Bayeux Tapestry. The king's Harrying of the North was a military success but a human catastrophe – one that even appalled chroniclers traditionally sympathetic to the Norman regime. (Photo by Bridgeman)
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    Was William the Conqueror a war criminal? The brutal story of the Harrying of the North

    Giant of literature: A page from the 'Beowulf' manuscript. The story is fictional but some of the characters within it were real people, and others were believed to be the ancestors of Anglo-Saxon and Danish kings. (Photo by Alamy)
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    Beowulf: The Anglo-Saxons’ action hero

    Half-timbered medieval cottages, Water Street, Lavenham, Suffolk, England, (Photo by Getty Images)
    Tudor

    History explorer A wealth of history: Laversham, Sulfolk

    William Dalrymple is an award-winning writer and historian based in India. (Photo by Bikramjt Bose)
    Tudor

    “This was a corporation that could topple kings”: William Dalrymple on the East India Company

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    British journalist Tom Wintringham (1898–1949), the candidate for the Christian Socialist Commonwealth Party. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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    My history hero Tom Wintringham (1898–1949)

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