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
Victorian Life with Ruth Goodman
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
Period
Premium
Membership
Alfred the Great and science at Christmas
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
20th Century
1922 in pictures: nationalists, navies, mountains and modernism
Premium
Membership
Michael Wood on Anglo-Saxon Christianity
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Advertisement MPU index
Premium
Membership
The origins of civilisation
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
20th Century
Q&A: When were the first film trailers shown?
Premium
Membership
Cornwell on Shakespeare
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Membership
A brief history of colour
20th Century
In pictures: a history of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
Premium
Membership
Eating with Dickens
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Advertisement MPU index
Premium
Membership
History quiz: Christmas with Henry VIII and his wives
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Premium
Membership
My history hero: Charles Dickens
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Premium
Membership
What was life like in the Iron Age? Plus 6 places in Britain to explore
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Membership
Britain’s Bonnie and Clyde
Membership
Catastrophe in Canada
Membership
The Library
The island fortress fallacy
Prev
Page
1
Page
413
You're currently on page
414
Page
415
Page
583
Next