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The BBC today launches a new multimedia project, based on an earlier and much neglected multimedia project. Domesday Reloaded reopens to the public the material that was gathered 25 years ago for the BBC Domesday project. In 1986, the BBC asked the public to submit details about their local area to help compile a digital snapshot of the country.

A survey of the BBC Magazines reader panel conducted on behalf of BBC History Magazine has uncovered that the 1995 version of Pride and Prejudice is the best costume drama to have graced Britain’s television screens. The televised adaption of the Jane Austen classic novel, starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle, was voted for by 14.1 per cent of respondents.

I've just been chatting to Dr Dan Plesch about a new project he’s leading called Our Democratic Heritage. It sounds like an interesting venture, also backed by historian-turned-MP Tristram Hunt, and supported by the Hansard Society.

I've just been looking at the first edition of the Illustrated London News, dating from May 1842.

Not just one but two new special editions of BBC History Magazine go on sale today.

This month we're offering you the chance to read a selection of great articles from BBC History Magazine for free. We've launched a 14-page digital magazine which is drawn from our March 2010 issue.

Our May 2010 edition is now on sale, a decade after our debut issue was launched. Then, as now, Winston Churchill featured on the cover. Our first issue declared that the post-war era had finally come to an end, while this month we delve into the remarkable turnaround at Dunkirk in 1940.

The latest issue of BBC History Magazine is now on sale. In our new edition Dan Snow celebrates the Royal Navy’s colourful history and looks at how Britain came to rule the waves. 

Elsewhere in the magazine we look at a major project that may shed new light on Oliver Cromwell. John Morrill writes about the military and political leader's way with words.

This month we examine an ambitious new project – headed by the British Museum and the BBC – to tell ‘A history of the world in 100 objects’. We also reveal how an American scholar travelled around a shattered Europe to record the voices of Holocaust survivors in 1946, and we pay tribute to the pioneering scientists who founded the Royal Society 350 years ago. You can also read about the dawn of the steam age and discover why Winston Churchill came to the aid of London’s roller skaters.

The Second World War started 70 years ago. The BBC History Magazine team have been working hard recently and we've published a separate special collector's edition, the BBC History Magazine Second World War Story, on sale in WHSmith in the UK.