September 2016

Articles from the September 2016 issue of BBC History Magazine

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

Henry V: the caring king

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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)

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

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

My history hero: Maya Angelou (1928–2014)

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View of the Waterloo Gallery at Apsley House, London. (Photo by English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

History explorer: the Napoleonic Wars

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

The female Chaucer

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

England’s northern soul

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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)

1666: when London burned with rage

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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)

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)

The reluctant Europeans

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Johannes Vermeer's 'View of Delft’, 1661. (Photo by Buyenlarge/Getty Images)

My favourite place: Delft, Netherlands

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