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OCTOBER 2012
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18 Hitler’s dark charisma Laurence Rees considers the reasons behind the Nazi party’s surge to power in Germany in the 1930s
26 A new church is born Geza Vermes explains how the early Christian movement departed from its origins at a key meeting in AD 325
30 The five big questions in global history Odd Arne Westad considers global history’s big debates, from human migration to the rise of the west
40 Living in sin? Rebecca Probert reveals that, contrary to popular assumptions, poorer Victorians did not cohabit
46 How Britain got the bomb Michael S Goodman tells the story of the country’s first nuclear weapons test, which took place 60 years ago
50 Tudors in America David Childs discusses why early English forays into the New World lagged far behind other powers
56 The scandal of female miners Denise Bates reveals how images of topless women working in coal mines shocked the nation in the 1840s
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