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    September 2020

    Expert history articles from the September 2020 issue of BBC History Magazine

    Edward the Confessor seated at a banquet
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    Edward the Confessor: England’s holy hardman

    A Fool Rebuked by God, 14th-century psalter. (Photo by Heritage Arts/Heritage Images via Getty Images)
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    Medieval marginalia: exploring ‘doodles’ from the Middle Ages

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    How potatoes conquered the world 

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    Mary Seacole as seen in a contemporary photo. Although she became famous for her nursing work in the Crimean War, her story subsequently became largely forgotten. (Photo by Alamy)
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    My history hero: Bernardine Evaristo chooses Mary Seacole (1805–1881)

    Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival (far right) marches to the Japanese camp to surrender Singapore. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun Premium via Getty Images)
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    VJ Day: turning the tide in the east

    Afua Hirsch in Kenya. (Photo by Clear Story/BBC)
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    Afua Hirsch: “The prejudice still surrounding Africa is absolutely rooted in a racist past”

    Scientists Frederic Joliot-Curie and his wife, Irene, at work in their Paris laboratory in December 1932. The couple were among a wide-ranging group of scientists whose work paved the way for the atomic bomb. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
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    Hiroshima: the race to the atomic bomb

    US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference. (Photo by Michael Reynolds/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images
    General Modern

    Donald Trump: a president without precedent?

    As seen in this early 19th-century depiction of an initiation, Masons have long used secrecy to
    Georgian

    A history of Freemasonry: from Enlightenment ideals to satanic conspiracy stories

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