February 2025 issue of BBC History Magazine out now!
Children of the Blitz
Dan Todman explores the experiences of evacuees from Britain’s towns and cities during the Second World War
England’s forgotten hero
John, Duke of Bedford was a key figure in the Hundred Years’ War, yet few today know of him. Joanna Arman introduces Henry V’s valiant brother
The colonial countryside
Corinne Fowler reveals how slave-owners used their wealth and power to oppress Britain’s rural poor
The Magna Carta that mattered
David Carpenter explains why 1225 rather than 1215 was the crucial year in the establishment of the charter known as the cornerstone of English law
Fingers, frogs and fairies
Martha McGill highlights how fortune telling was all the rage in Tudor and Stuart England
How Africa changed the world
The only accurate histories of the continent are those that put Africans right at the middle of the story, argues Luke Pepera
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