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Christmas 2015
Christmas 2015
Articles from the Christmas 2015 issue of BBC History Magazine
General Modern
The historians’ view: what are the real issues in the US gun control debate?
Viking
Vikings in America: the Europeans who arrived 500 years before Columbus
Victorian
Jamaica’s Morant Bay Rebellion: brutality and outrage in the British empire
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Second World War
Danger in the deep: key questions about the Battle of the Atlantic answered
20th Century
A brief history of the Christmas Speech
Victorian
Was Victorian life really so grim? 5 reasons why the Victorians were ‘happy’
Victorian
The Victorian phrenology craze
Elizabethan
Deadly rivals: Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots
Plantagenet
My history hero: Henry V
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Medieval
Game of Thrones: medieval inspiration
My favourite place: Ian Kershaw
Medieval
The Library
Owain Glyndwr: The last Welsh Prince of Wales
20th Century
My Favourite Place: Munich, Germany