June 2011

Benjamin Ziemann, Jeremy Black and David Stevenson consider how the Allies defeated Germany and why they agreed to an armistice

Angus Konstam takes a closer look at the trial of privateer-turned-pirate Captain Kidd and questions whether his was a miscarriage of justice

David Reynolds explains how a Nazi victory 70 years ago when more than three million German troops stormed into the Soviet Union, could have had grave implications for Britain

BBC History Magazine's Rob Attar takes a look at the unusual menagerie once housed at the Tower of London for over 600 years, and meets some of its more colourful inhabitants. In another feature in June's issue, Rob examines how the profession of war reporting has changed over the past century

Eugene Byrne tells the story of the postwar squatters who set up home in disused military camps during the summer of 1946

Dominic Sandbrook nominates 2 September 1666 – the date that the City of London was engulfed by “an infinite great fire”  – as a big day in history

Daniel Szechi speaks to BBC History Magazine’s Charlotte Hodgman about the Jacobites and visits eight associated places

Thomas Ruys Smith offers his advice for those visiting New Orleans in the year 1858