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    October 2013

    Articles from the October 2013 issue of BBC History Magazine

    A woman is carried away on a stretcher following a German bombing raid on London, c1940. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
    Second World War

    The dangers of the Blitz spirit

    This 16th-century woodcut depicts King James VI at the North Berwick witch trials, the case that first sparked his obsession with hunting. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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    James VI and I: the king who hunted witches

    Saul David.
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    My favourite history books 2013: Saul David

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    Paul Cartledge
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    Alison Weir.
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    My favourite history books 2013: Alison Weir

    The then Princess Alexandra pictured here in 1884 wearing the high-necked, feminised version of the male suit that became associated with her. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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    Who’s the best-dressed Briton in history?

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    Books interview: Herodotus’s ‘The Histories’

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    Professor Richard Bradley investigates the Neolithic tomb of Wayland's Smithy. The stone monument we see today hides an earlier wooden structure that held the remains of 14 people. (Photo by Oliver Edwards)
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    History Explorer: Neolithic treatment of the dead

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    The June 1933 cover of the Radio Times. (Photo by Sarah Fabian-Baddiel/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
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    Changing times: 90 years of the Radio Times

    Paul Delaroche's 19th-century painting shows King Edward V and the Duke of York in the Tower of London. What happened next has puzzled historians for centuries. (The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)
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    The princes in the Tower: why was their fate never explained?

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