Skip to main content
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
All podcasts
Podcast series
Quizzes
Membership
Back to
Main menu
Membership area
Member discounts
Join HistoryExtra
BBC History Mag
Academy
Back to
Membership
Tudor life with Ruth Goodman
WW1 myths and misconceptions | HistoryExtra Academy
Royal residences: secrets and scandals
Nazi Germany
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
North America
North America
Membership
The hunter who became a naturalist
Membership
The 1930s: When the future looked bright
Membership
Allan Pinkerton: The eye that never slept
Membership
My history hero: Samuel Hearne (1745–92)
Membership
The Library
The battle of Quebec and the jealousy of a queen
General Modern
Q&A
What is the origin of the phrase ‘going postal’, meaning ‘going berserk’?
Membership
audio
Thomas Paine on both sides of the Atlantic and the plight of the suffragettes
Membership
Zulu wars and American presidents, past and present
Membership
Ancient civilisations and Victorian shopping
Membership
Simon Schama on American history
Membership
The Library
The mystery of Cook’s lost journal
Membership
Esther Wheelwright: from survivor to mother superior
Membership
Martin Luther King: A drum major for justice
Membership
The plot to kidnap King George III
You're currently on page 23
Prev
Page
Page
1
Page
20
Page
21
Page
22
Page
23
