May 2010

Articles from the May 2010 issue of BBC History Magazine

A drawing of a Georgian woman in a wide dress and a towering wig

How to survive in the Georgian court

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British evacuees from Dunkirk walk off their rescue vessel land in Britain. (Photo by Corbis via Getty Images)

Where history happened: Dunkirk . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Adolf Hitler makes plans at his headquarters in Bruly-de-Peche, Ardennes, Belgium. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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The Library The fall of France: Hitler’s greatest gamble

Nazis marching through Guernsey during the Second World War, 1940. (Photo by Express/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

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Guernsey’s child evacuees

The dark art of blackmail prepared Charles Théveneau de Morande well for a career in espionage. (Alamy)

Charles Théveneau de Morande: an 18th-century French spy in London