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    September 2016

    Articles from the September 2016 issue of BBC History Magazine

    Julian of Norwich holds her famous book in a sculpture at the doors of Norwich Cathedral. (Photo by Creative Commons Wiki)
    Medieval

    Julian of Norwich: Janina Ramirez hails ‘the female Chaucer’

    Portrait of King Henry V. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)
    Medieval

    Henry V: 5 facts you might not know about the king’s softer side

    Reinhard Heydrich’s brutality was shocking, even by Nazi standards. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)
    Second World War

    Killing Hitler’s hangman: the dramatic story of Reinhard Heydrich’s assassination

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    Detail of a Viking helmet from grave one at Vendel, Uppland, Sweden. In the 860s and 870s, the Vikings would bring war to England’s four kingdoms on a massive scale. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)
    Viking

    The great Viking terror: how Norse warriors conquered the Anglo-Saxons

    Maya Angelou was “the ultimate boundary-breaker”, says Naga Munchetty. (Photo by Craig Herndon/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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    My history hero: Maya Angelou (1928–2014)

    View of the Waterloo Gallery at Apsley House, London. (Photo by English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
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    The Library History explorer: the Napoleonic Wars

    Newcastle upon Tyne, 1877, published in the Illustrated London News. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)
    Medieval

    The Library England’s northern soul

    An engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar depicting Old St Paul's on fire during the Great Fire of London, 1666. Frantic efforts to fight the flames quickly turned into an equally fevered search for a scapegoat. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)
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    The Library 1666: when London burned with rage

    Henry Cabot Lodge Jr (centre) at a UN Security Council meeting concerning the Suez crisis. (Photo by Lisa Larsen/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
    20th Century

    Blood and sand: Suez, Hungary and the crisis that shook the world

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    Londoners read newspaper headlines about Britain's entry to the Common Market, January 1973. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
    20th Century

    The reluctant Europeans

    Johannes Vermeer's 'View of Delft’, 1661. (Photo by Buyenlarge/Getty Images)
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    My favourite place: Delft, Netherlands

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