Inside the March 2024 issue of BBC History Magazine, on sale now...


Elizabeth v Mary

Nicola Tallis chronicles the sibling rivalry that soured the relationship between these two Tudor queens

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The wheelbarrow craze

What drove Victorians to race hand carts from one end of Britain to the other? David Musgrove investigates


Five things you (probably) didn’t know about… the Vikings

Ryan Lavelle reveals five fascinating facts about the Scandinavian raiders, traders and explorers


Knights! Camera! Action!

Robert Bartlett dissects Hollywood’s longstanding obsession with movies inspired by the Middle Ages


Who shot JFK?

Rob Attar on the enduring power of conspiracy theories, from the Knights Templar to the murder of a president

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The Bengal famine

Kavita Puri tells the story of one of the darkest episodes in the modern history of the Indian subcontinent


The ancient world’s greatest city

Islam Issa reveals how Alexandria became a global powerhouse


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