BBC History - UK (2022-01)

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Victoria controlled an extensive network of intelligence sources that fed explosive revelations to the British government – or d ...

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Cover story / Queen of spies Victoria needed intelligence not only to protect her dynasty but also to protect herself GE TT Y^ I ...

had arrested a young man, Edward Oxford. Intriguingly, they also uncovered letters at his house about a revolutionary secret ...

she began sending back sensitive material from the Prussian court, giving Victoria an advantage over her ministers. When war bro ...

Reading between lines Queen Victoria in 1861. Her uncle Leopold, king of the Belgians, had earlier taught her key lessons such a ...

Cover story / Queen of spies back from the frontline when Russia declared war on the Ottoman empire. Russia moved troops into th ...

Fearing the anarchist threat, Victoria became an impressively early advocate for international cooperation in counterterrorism T ...

French ruler Louis IX was a Catholic hero and a vicious anti-Semite, a patron of exquisite art and a fervent burner of books. Ma ...

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I t’s a beautiful spring day in Paris sometime in April 1248 as sunlight streams through the south-facing windows of Sainte-Chap ...

that subservience, often through violence: harassment, segregation, sometimes assault and murder – and, in this case, book b ...

Louis IX’s tangled legacy not bound by the ordinary rules. When a sacred object moves, it drags the world with it and makes re-o ...

fellow Christians, but also struggling against those seen as God’s enemies. Louis would continue his persecution of the Jews, th ...

Q&A A selection of historical conundrums answered by experts BR ID GE M AN It seems extraordinary that two such remarkable – ...

DR EA M ST IM E/ PU BL IC D OM AI N When were cats first associated with witchcraft? Aloof, beautiful and with vermin- killing s ...

GE TT Y^ I M AG ES /A LA M Y/ M AR Y^ EV AN S A BRAVE N Past and future FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: A coloured sketch of the Cenotaph in ...

EW WORLD? Could a nation traumatised by war truly let its hair down and embrace the possibilities of peace? With the 1921 ce ...

Britain in 1921 GE TT Y^ I M AG ES I t was a year of hope. It was a year of regret. It was a time of boundless optimism at the p ...