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Eleanor of Aquitaine. (Illustration by Andy Tuohy)

Eleanor of Aquitaine Why did she revolt against her husband?

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November 2023 issue of BBC History Magazine out now!

The striking, surrealism-influenced Radio Times cover shows the transmitter mast at Alexandra Palace

Radio Times at 100: a “vivid running commentary” on a century of British life

A coloured engraving of Richard Whittington, wearing red robes and hat

How the real Dick Whittington lives up to his pantomime

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General History

The history of Paris: Romans, Renaissance and Revolution

A graphic of a detective looking through a magnifying glass at an old fountain pen with a skull on the nib.

The rise of the poison pen: 6 cases of anonymous hate mail in Britain

Water colour image of Madrid, showing a building behind a water fountain

General History

The history of Madrid: from the Moors to modernity

Portrait of Elizabeth Linley

8 scandals that shocked Georgian Britain

Watercolour illustration of Lisbon, showing a street leading up towards a church

General History

The history of Lisbon: Portugal’s capital of exploration and commerce

Miniature of Ecgfrith, king of the English, along with his bishop Trumwine, visiting Cuthbert at Lindisfarne

How the Kingdom of Northumbria changed Anglo-Saxon England

Robert the Bruce addresses his troops ahead of Bannockburn in a 20th-century engraving.

Why is the battle of Bannockburn remembered as Scotland’s greatest victory?

c1880, the Paris rugby team.

When Vichy France banned rugby

Charles VI and Henry V entering Paris

What if… Henry V hadn't died in 1422?

Swathes of Tokyo lie in ruins after the Great Kantō Earthquake on 1 September 1923

The Great Kantō earthquake: a 1923 disaster that left Tokyo in ruins

Painting depicting the Spanish Armada

Keep calm and carry on trading: how English merchants reacted to the Spanish Armada