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DANNY BIRD highlights events that took place in September in history

“We wanted the public to be better informed about the history of empire”

EXPERTS DEBATE HISTORY’S BIGGEST ISSUES

The long road back The election was tough for the Conservatives – but the past holds clues on how parties can return from the brink

It’s election night 1997, and Jeremy Paxman is

“We need a meaningful story for the new generation – our composite union”

FRAN MONKS CRAFTING A NEW NATIONAL NARRATIVE Michael

“I wish that there was no need for specialist history months”

KAVITA PURI on why we should celebrate diverse

LETTERS

Crusaders should not be viewed by modern standards,

Q&A

A selection of historical conundrums answered by experts

From china cups to letter bombs

The suffragettes crafted a brilliant PR campaign, driven by everything from branded marmalade to marching bands. But did their quest for publicity eventually backfire? Ellie Cawthorne investigates an Edwardian battle for hearts and minds

THE SPY WHO HOODWINKED HITLER

Dummy tanks at El Alamein. Bogus generals in Algiers. Sham armies on D-Day. All were ruses masterminded by Dudley Clarke. Robert Hutton tells the story of the British soldier who made an art form of duping the Nazis

The king they couldn’t kill

Want to know why Henry VII is remembered as an intensely suspicious king, wracked by paranoia? The answer, writes Nathen Amin, lies in his death-defying rise to power

THE GENIUS IN THE SHADOWS

Æthelstan is one of the greatest of all Anglo-Saxon monarchs. So why, asks Michael Wood, does the first king of the English remain so fiendishly elusive?

EASTERN PROMISES

Lured by rich trading prospects, from the 17th to the 19th centuries Britain attempted to cultivate relations with China – sometimes successfully, but often disastrously. Kerry Brown explores the troubled but ultimately vital links between two ambitious realms

Medieval England’s political miracle

THINK PIECE

“People have achieved all kinds of crazy things at the age of 18”

ALICE LOXTON

A Pole apart

EUROPEAN

The battle against shipwrecksÉ and ignorance

NAVAL

The man behind the Regency mask

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There’s no place like throne

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A masterclass in Greek

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Quebec City in five places

From a French trading post to the capital of British North America, the Canadian city has a storied past. DAVID MENDEL suggests five unmissable sights

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