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    October 2014

    Articles from the October 2014 issue of BBC History Magazine

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    Killers of the king: the men who dared to execute Charles I

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    Did the Tudors invent the Wars of the Roses?

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    History explorer: The Chartist movement

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    The smile revolution against the Reign of Terror

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    Steps in time: Dancing through history

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    The rise of Homo sapiens

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    1939: When Poland was torn to pieces

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    My favourite place: The Black Forest, south-west Germany

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