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JULY 2012
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20 Britain’s Civil War: the 15 key moments Micheál Ó Siochrú, John Adamson and Blair Worden give their verdicts
28 England’s medieval Trafalgar Sean McGlynn describes the hugely significant battle of Sandwich
32 The missing Tudors They attended queens at court, so why, asks Onyeka, do we airbrush black Africans out of Tudor England?
34 The watchmakers of Waterford Richard Whatmore tells the story of an unlikely community on the southern Irish coast
42 Bad sports? Alistair Dougall describes how Puritan attempts to ban certain sports split opinion in 17th-century England
50 Medieval tourism Research suggests that a large number of our medieval ancestors caught the travel bug, writes Paul Oldfield
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58 Five myths of the Great Escape Guy Walters dispels some popular misconceptions about the famous breakout from Stalag Luft III
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