Becky Hoskins studied History at the University of Bristol and is the Web Assistant for BBC History Magazine.
Making the news this week: old history books are brought back into the classroom in an attempt to encourage student interest. Plus, there's Grace Kelly and David Starkey, an ancient skull and shroud, and the internet lends a helping hand to historians.
School history to be boosted by 1930s books.
David Starkey causes controversy with comments on female historians.
New website launched to record historical memories.
VAT: a history of Value Added Tax in Britain.
Ancient skull provides link in human evolution.
Grace Kelly hits London’s V&A museum.
Turin Shroud: what do we know about its authenticity?
Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked in Israel.
Balkans history: re-written by the UK?
Twitter posts to be archived by the Library of Congress.
Becky Hoskins studied History at the University of Bristol and is the Web Assistant for BBC History Magazine.
Republican politician and regicide Henry Marten died after choking on his supper in Chepstow Castle. He had been a prisoner since the Restoration of Charles II in 1660.
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