September 2011

Articles from the September 2011 issue of BBC History Magazine

12th September 1911: London schoolboys on strike at Shoreditch. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

The 1911 schoolchildren strikes

'Petition for Abolishing Slavery', 1826. The image shows a shackled slave pleading with his master, whilst two children hold up the petition to abolish the slave trade. From "The Black Man's Lament, or, how to make sugar", by Amelia Alderson Opie. (London, 1826).
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9 key places connected to the abolition of the British slave trade

The front page of the first edition of The Sun newspaper. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

A big day in history: The Sun first appeared on shelves in newsagents

Bluestones, like these in the Preseli hills, were used to build Stonehenge. (Photo by Paula Connelly via Getty Images)

General ancient history

Britain’s buried secrets

Hans Litten (centre) in court while representing communists, 25 August 1932. Litten’s decision to subpoena Hitler a year earlier was to cost him his life. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Second World War

Hitler in the dock

A London Missionary Society (LMS) mission in Papua New Guinea, c1920s. (Photo by Chronicle/Alamy Stock Photo)

Married to a missionary

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General ancient history

The Persian empire: myth vs reality

Portrait of physician Elizabeth Blackwell. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Timepix/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

My history hero: Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910)

In his last official photo, Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945) leaves the safety of his bunker to award decorations to members of Hitler Youth. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images)

Second World War

The Library Why did the Nazis fight to the death?

Illustration by Jonty Clark

Ye olde travel guide: St Petersburg 1725

A Greek relief depicting a woman sitting with her jewels with a slave. (Photo by PHAS/UIG via Getty Images)

Democrats and slaves