Inside the September 2024 issue of BBC History Magazine, on sale now...


Hoodwinking Hitler

Robert Hutton introduces a master of deception who played a key role in the Allies’ greatest triumphs of the Second World War

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Henry VII’s battle for survival

Nathen Amin shows how multiple brushes with death turned Henry into a mistrustful, even paranoid monarch


The genius of Æthelstan

Michael Wood on the challenges of writing a biography of the shadowy but enormously influential Anglo-Saxon king


The suffragettes’ secret weapon

Ellie Cawthorne reveals how a brilliant PR campaign helped rally Britons to the cause of votes for women


When Britain met China

Kerry Brown traces three centuries of interactions between the two realms, from early overtures to coercive attempts to open up trade

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Power to the medieval people

Richard Partington and Caroline Burt explain how the fallout from war and plague transformed the English state in the 13th and 14th centuries


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