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April 2014
April 2014
Articles from the April 2014 issue of BBC History Magazine
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Beans, ale & 'windy meats': surprising 17th-century aphrodisiacs
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My history hero
Tanni Grey-Thompson chooses Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan
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Ye olde travel guide: Savannah, 1859
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History explorer: Africans in Tudor and Stuart Britain
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Britain and France: Empires under fire
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The miracle of Henry VI: how the weak medieval king became a 'saint'
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The growing pains of BBC Two
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Living in the shadow of the workhouse
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The long shadow of Adolf Hitler
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Shakespeare: 7 burning questions about his life
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Books interview with Helen Rappaport: the Romanov sisters
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In search of the real Pocahontas
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