Coming up in the June 2024 issue of BBC History Magazine
Coming up in the next issue of BBC History Magazine
In our June 2024 issue, on sale 9 May 2024
The British empire’s last hurrah?
Matthew Parker argues that an epic celebration of imperialism in 1924 failed to mask a superpower in decline
The forgotten kingdom
Sophie Thérèse Ambler and JamesMorris tell the story of the mysterious northern stronghold of Cumbria
Beethoven’s ode to peace
Bronwen Everill traces how a 19th-century musical masterpiece has became a symbol of brotherhood
Georgian art attack
Graffiti was used as an expression of radicalism in 18th-century Britain, writes Madeleine Pelling
Five things you (probably) didn’t know about… witchcraft
Marion Gibson reveals five fascinating facts about the witch trials of the 16th and 17th centuries
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Roman slaves’ brutal lives
Guy de la Bédoyère contends that Roman society was built upon the servitude of its captive population
Scandalous Victorians
Rosalind Crone dissects eight cases that outraged Britons in the 19th century
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