History Hot 100 supplement We reveal the historical gures who are making the biggest waves in 2015

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We asked readers and historians to vote for the historical gures that currently fascinate them the most. The results are in and we can now unveil our History Hot 100 for 2015… WORDS: CHARLOTTE HODGMAN

46 How British culture took the world by storm

51 The dangers of being pious in Tudor England

22 How the RAF outgunned the Lu wa e in the summer of 1940

28 “PLAGUE BROKE OUT LIKE EARTHQUAKES, UNHERALDED AND RANDOMLY”

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