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March 2012
March 2012
Articles from the March 2012 issue of BBC History Magazine
Medieval
Q&A
What are the Easter treats known as Biddenden cakes?
Tudor
Hold your noses: the smells, sounds and sights of Elizabethan England
Tudor
Where history happened: Tudor courtiers with Suzannah Lipscomb
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Stuart
17th-century nuns on the run
Victorian
A big day in history: Gilbert and Sullivan unveil ‘The Mikado’
Medieval
Britain’s medieval identity crisis
Georgian
Ye Olde Travel Guide: Bahamas 1718
Second World War
The Second World War: sinking the Tirpitz
Stuart
The triumph of the redcoats
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First World War
The Library
“Our Excess Girls": women after the First World War
20th Century
My history hero: Ernest Bevin (1881-1951)