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SEPTEMBER 2017
CONTENTS

Features Every month

6 ANNIVERSARIES
11 HISTORY NOW

11 The latest history news
14 Backgrounder: high-rise housing

17 MICHAEL WOOD’S VIEW
18 LETTERS
36 OUR FIRST WORLD WAR 20
Victoria and Albert:
65 BOOKS
was theirs really such
What Britons’ grief on the death of Diana Reviews of the latest releases, plus
tells us about the nation in 1997, page 50 Clair Wills discusses her book on a perfect match?
immigrants’ lives in postwar Britain

20 Victoria and Albert 77 TV & RADIO
Jane Ridley exposes the secret tensions The pick of this month’s history
in the apparently perfect royal marriage programmes

25 The best of enemies 82 OUT & ABOUT
France and Britain had a great deal in 82 History explorer: Kew Palace
common in the 18th and 19th centuries, 87 Five things to do in September
say Renaud Morieux and Fabrice Bensimon 88 My favourite place: Florence

28 Wanted by the Nazis 95 MISCELLANY
Gavin Mortimer on a maverick Brit who 95 Q&A and quiz
took on the Germans in occupied France 96 Samantha’s recipe corner
97 Prize crossword 38
30 Lost Viking battles The violent end of a
Five forgotten encounters helped shape a 98 MY HISTORY HERO
nation’s destiny, writes Thomas Williams TV presenter Nick Hewer chooses monk-turned-bandit
the author Primo Levi
38 The unholy holy man GETTY IMAGES/HELEN ATKINSON/BRIDGEMAN/ANDY TUOHY/ALAMY/ THE MASTER AND FELLOWS OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
Sean McGlynn on how Eustace – monk, 48 SUBSCRIBE
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43 It was written in the stars
Guy de la Bédoyère describes celestial
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50 The death of Diana
Dominic Sandbrook analyses the mood 80 EVENTS 65
of the nation through its reaction to the Details of our events Clair Wills
death of Princess Diana 20 years ago at Winchester and York
re!ects on
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