Subscribe
Newsletter sign up
Download app
Join our Academy
The official website for BBC History Magazine
Period
Back to
Main menu
Ancient Egypt
Roman
Viking
Anglo-Saxon
Medieval
Tudor
Elizabethan
Georgian
Victorian
Second World War
Back to
Period
Browse all periods
People
Back to
Main menu
Tutankhamun
Richard III
Henry VIII
Elizabeth I
Queen Victoria
Winston Churchill
Cleopatra
Napoleon Bonaparte
Back to
People
Browse all people
Topics
Back to
Main menu
Kings and queens
Weird and wonderful
Sex and love
Social history
Religious history
Women's history
Historical Q&As
Heritage visits
History hero
Historical recipes
Turning points in British History
Back to
Topics
Browse all topics
Video
Podcast
Back to
Main menu
Podcast series
Quizzes
Membership
Back to
Main menu
Membership area
Back to
Membership
Member discounts
Join HistoryExtra
BBC History Mag
Academy
Back to
Membership
Late-medieval England course
Roman Britain course
D-Day course
Witchcraft course
Elizabethans course
Vikings course
Regency course
Subscribe
Newsletter sign up
Download app
Join our Academy
Search
Home
Period
20th Century
20th Century
Premium
Membership
History explorer: the Cold War
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Membership
“Welcome home, Charlie”: Chaplin’s postwar return to London
Membership
The running revolutionary
Advertisement MPU index
Membership
Les Parisiennes: how the women of Paris lived, loved and died in the 1940s
Premium
Membership
The Cold War and the history of philosophy
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Premium
Membership
The Somme: was it really a monstrous failure?
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Membership
Enigma before Bletchley: the German spies who betrayed Hitler to steal codes
Membership
Q&A
Mein Kampf: what happened to Hitler’s money after his death?
20th Century
My history hero: Seve Ballesteros (1957–2011)
Advertisement MPU index
Membership
1966: when the swing turned sour
Membership
Elizabeth II and her prime ministers
Premium
Membership
My history hero: Lyndon Johnson (1908–73)
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Membership
There was more to the 80s than Maggie
20th Century
Behind the scenes of Suzannah Lipscomb’s ‘Hidden Killers of the Post-War Home’
Membership
A revealing history of underwear
Prev
Page
1
Page
107
You're currently on page
108
Page
109
Page
119
Next