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WELCOME

DECEMBER 2022 “One hundred years ago this month,

THREE THINGS I’VE LEARNED THIS MONTH

1. Planting a seed I was intrigued to

Hundreds massacred at Wounded Knee

Native Americans are brutally gunned down by US soldiers

Isabella instigates a coup and installs herself as queen

12 DECEMBER 1474

King Henry I dies after eating too many lampreys

England is thrown into a succession crisis and a destructive civil war

The League of Nations expels the Soviet Union for its aggression

The USSR’s invasion of Finland sparks global condemnation

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“Hilary Mantel changed the way we think about history”

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THE HISTORIAN’S VIEW

Roger Moorhouse on the ways in which recent developments in the Russia-Ukraine conflict echo the Second World War

The history that shaped the Queen’s funeral

People around the world were transfixed by the scale and splendour of Elizabeth II’s funeral in September – aceremony that drew explicitly on centuries of British royal traditions. TRACY BORMAN reveals how such events have changed, yet remained the same, across generations

"The Spanish Civil War is personal. Nearly every family has a link to it"

Kavita Puri is a journalist, author and broadcaster.

"We paid respect to the late monarch but also projected an idea of Britain"

Michael Wood is professor of public history at

Cold, hard facts

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Q&A

A selection of historical conundrums answered by experts

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“What unites these commanders is self-belief. If they didn’t have faith in themselves, no one else would”

AL MURRAY tells Spencer Mizen about his new book profiling 10 military leaders whose experiences shine a light on the Allies’ extraordinary transformation in the Second World War

Power behind the throne

MEDIEVAL

Past tense, future perfect?

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On the frontline

ROBERT LYMAN commends a masterful account of the Pacific War through the eyes of one company of US marines

Labour control

POLITICAL

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Imperial insanity

GETTY IMAGES The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the

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Stuck in the middle

Our podcast editor ELLIE CAWTHORNE discusses the dangerous task of translating between the British empire and Qing China at a fragile moment in international relations

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Ruins and royalty

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Actor and TV presenter Sam Naz chooses 1914

Marching into infamy

RJB Bosworth reveals how the March on Rome – which saw Benito Mussolini’s Fascist squads seize power a century ago – set Italy on a path to totalitarianism

QUEENS OF BLING

When Henry VIII’s wives sought to project messages about themselves to the watching world, they often did so via jewellery. Using six portraits, Nicola Tallis reveals how the consorts’ choice of pendants, rubies and brooches shaped their public images

“She was in the world of change but somehow apart from it”

Throughout her reign, Queen Elizabeth II remained a constant presence in an era of vast social, technological and geopolitical transformation. Anna Whitelock charts an era in which Britain, but not its queen, changed beyond recognition

The BBC at war

The 1944 Normandy landings marked a turning point in the Second World War – and a milestone in war reporting. DAVID HENDY describes the months of effort that allowed the BBC to report effectively from the front line

THE BOY WHO DISCOVERED THE BOY KING

When Howard Carter located the entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb, he became an archaeological hero. Yet, as Toby Wilkinson reveals, the British Egyptologist failed to credit the person behind the historic find

A DYNASTY OF DESPOTS

From the colossal temples of Luxor to Tutankhamun’s golden death mask, the pharaohs of ancient Egypt’s golden age created some of history’s greatest treasures. Yet, writes Guy de la Bédoyère, behind the glittering facade lay a society built on brutality, inequality and staggering levels of corruption

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Writing for her life

Marie Antoinette spent much of her reign engaged in a battle: first to cement her position as queen of France, and then to avoid the guillotine. Catriona Seth uses the queen’s letters to trace her desperate bid for survival

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