Becky Hoskins studied History at the University of Bristol and is the Web Assistant for BBC History Magazine.
In the news this week: choices of the best Prime Ministers and the top elections in British history. Elsewhere, historic documentaries make headlines, Churchill goes to auction and Latin is lost from the web.
Best British Prime Ministers: The Times gives their verdict.
Greatest General Elections, by Lord Tebbit.
Maps as a vital historical source.
Australian mini-series on Gallipoli Campaign attacked as Caucasian actor is cast in Chinese role.
Latin no longer used in web addresses.
Conservation experts to document historic Mount Rushmore.
American Kennedy series labelled as 'political character assassination'.
Winston Churchill’s memorabilia to go to auction.
World War Two ‘Ghost Army’ to be captured in new documentary.
Medieval black Briton discovered in Suffolk friary.
Becky Hoskins studied History at the University of Bristol and is the Web Assistant for BBC History Magazine.
English Pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt died in Kensington, aged 83. His best-known work is his allegorical The Light of the World. The original painting hangs in the chapel of Keble College, Oxford.
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