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BBC History UK - December 2011 (Repost)

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BBC History UK - December 2011 (Repost)

BBC History UK - December 2011
English | 100 pages | HQ PDF | 79.6 MB


In this December issue, Helen Rappaport explains how the death of Queen Victoria's beloved husband, Prince Albert, was regarded as a national calamity, and was a blow from which Victoria never fully recovered.

BBC History Magazine's Rob Attar speaks to three veterans who endured forced marches as Allied PoWs during the Second World War.

Tim Jeal investigates Victorian explorers of the Nile and the race to discover the source of Africa's longest river.

James Holland looks at the Dambusters raid of 1943 and discovers that the attacks were more than just a PR victory. James also presents a new BBC Timewatch documentary on the Dambusters this autumn.

Ardis Butterfield examines evidence that suggests Geoffrey Chaucer deliberately challenged the dominance of French and Latin in written texts by writing The Canterbury Tales in English.

Adam Nicolson traces the rise and fall of the gentry through three landed families in Yorkshire, Kent and the West Country.

Ian Hislop takes a closer look at Victorian bankers as role models for today's financiers.

Kate Williams talks to BBC History Magazine's Charlotte Hodgman about the impact of Queen Victoria's marriage to Prince Albert on her rule, and visits eight related places.



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