January 2025 issue of BBC History Magazine out now!
Can we trust Marco Polo?
Was the superstar medieval explorer a fraud? Peter Jackson investigates
Did Richard III kill the princes in the Tower?
Tracy Borman and Tim Thornton reveal how a new discovery sheds light on a 500-year-old murder mystery
Who is the greatest US president in history?
Was it Reagan, Washington, Lincoln…? Seven experts offer their verdicts
Gunpowder terror
Lucy Worsley traces the radicalisation of Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators at the turn of the 17th century
Hell at Monte Cassino
James Holland reveals how flawed leadership helped turn a 1944 battle in central Italy into a brutal slog
Firestarter suffragette
Diane Atkinson describes how Lilian Lenton ignited the campaign for women’s votes
When was the best time to be alive?
Robert Blackmore explores humanity’s millennia-long obsession with the existence of a golden age
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