Follow a Crusader queen into battle with All About History issue 35

Eleanor of Aquitaine is a name forever etched in to history. One of the most powerful women of the entire Middle Ages, she was also the continent’s most eligible heiress. The antithesis of a shrinking violet, open up our cover feature and discover why she was likened to a mythical Amazonian warrior queen and read about her life in England after the disastrous Second Crusade.

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Victorian medicine: The deadly diseases and even deadlier remedies

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The Battle of Verdun: WWI’s longest clash, 100 years on

 

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