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Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring on the balcony of the Reichs Chancellery, Berlin. One British journalist recalled how, in 1933, Göring began an attack against the foreign press unlike any he had previously witnessed. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Reporting on Hitler: how foreign correspondents in Nazi Germany battled to expose the truth

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Paul Morland (Photo by Fran Monks)

How population has shaped world history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of theologian and Bible translator John Wycliffe (c1330–84). (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

The murderous history of Bible translations

The pirate Blackbeard

10 brilliant beards from history

Women in ancient Athens

Love, magic and murder: the strange death of Philoneos in 430BC

A biplane takes off from Newfoundland

Alcock and Brown: the first aviators to fly across the Atlantic

Edward the Confessor depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry.

Q&A What did Edward ‘confess’?

Record producer Joe Meek

Joe Meek: the life and legacy of the British record producer

A depiction of Henry VIII and his only recognised illegitimate child, Henry Fitzroy. (Illustration by Glen McBeth for BBC History Magazine)

Q&A Did Henry VIII acknowledge any of his illegitimate children?

Scottish nobles gathering in the 17th century

Scotland on the brink: the nation’s final years of independence

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The beautiful courtyard of the al-Qarawiyyin Mosque and university, founded in the 850's (Izzet Keribar/Getty Images)

Explore Fès, Morocco: Morocco’s spiritual capital . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Japanese troops celebrate the capture of a British artillery position, Hong Kong, December 1941 (Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

The lion and the rising sun: Britain and Japan’s 400-year relationship

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Ivinghoe Brecon. (Image by Alamy)

The landscape of England . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

US baseball legend, Joseph 'Shoeless Joe' Jackson, who was banned from the game along with seven other players after admitting that they had accepted money to lose the 1919 World Series.

“Say it ain’t so”: The ‘Black Sox’ scandal that rocked American baseball

Adolf Hitler with his mistress, Eva Braun, in the early to mid-1940s. The pair married on 29 April 1945, the day before they committed suicide together. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Second World War

Eva Braun: life with Adolf Hitler