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    October 2011

    Articles from the October 2011 issue of BBC History Magazine

    Irish rugby fans in London for the international match between Ireland and England at Twickenham Stadium, 13 February 1937. (Photo by E Dean/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
    20th Century

    Rugby warriors: the rugby-playing heroes of the First and Second World War

    A statue of the English queen Matilda in Luxembourg Garden, Paris. (Photo by Waring Abbott/Getty Images)
    Norman

    Matilda: William the Conqueror’s queen

    British microbiologist and discoverer of penicillin, Alexander Fleming. (Photo by Ipsumpix/Corbis via Getty Images)
    20th Century

    A big day in history: Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

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    Anti-capitalist graffiti referencing the Nike slogan ‘Just Do It’. Mayday riots, London, 2001. (Photo by PYMCA/UIG via Getty Images)
    General Modern

    Opinion: should historians comment on current affairs?

    A real and a virtual Tycho Brahe surveys the heavens next to his mural quadrant in the frontispiece to ‘Machines of the New Astronomy’. (Photo by DEA/G.DAGLI ORTI via Getty Images)
    General Modern

    A history of science in 10½ objects

    Kathleen Kenyon challenged biblical accounts with her pioneering work at the ancient city of Jericho. (Photo by Bettmann/contributor via Getty Images)
    20th Century

    My history hero: Kathleen Kenyon (1906–78)

    Douglas Haig (right) watches the stamping of poppies by ex-servicemen, during a visit to the British Legion poppy factory in Richmond, 22 October 1926. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
    First World War

    The Library Douglas Haig: a postwar revolutionary?

    A portrait of Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I’s ‘spymaster’. (Photo by Photo 12/UIG via Getty Images)
    Elizabethan

    Sir Francis Walsingham: spy-master extraordinaire and Elizabeth I’s security chief

    Vasily Grossman with the Red Army in Schwerin, Germany, 1945. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
    Second World War

    A war of words

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    Illustration by Jonty Clark
    General Modern

    Ye olde travel guide: Venice 1500

    View across the river Clyde to Dumbarton Rock and the medieval Dumbarton Castle. (Photo by Martin W Holt via Getty Images)
    Viking

    History explorer: Alfred and the Vikings

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