Subscribe to BBC History Magazine
Newsletter sign up
Download app
Join our Academy
The official website for BBC History Magazine
Search
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
Quizzes
Membership
Back to
Main menu
Membership area
Academy
Back to
Membership
Regency course
Vikings course
Elizabethans course
Witchcraft course
Magazine subscription
Subscribe to BBC History Magazine
Newsletter sign up
Download app
Join our Academy
Home
Location
Location
Victorian
The real history of Mary Surratt’s controversial role in the Lincoln conspiracy
Tudor
Anne Boleyn: your guide to the life and death of Henry VIII’s second queen – plus 11 little-known facts
General ancient history
Q&A
What was traded on the Silk Road?
Advertisement MPU index
Victorian
Why did John Wilkes Booth kill Abraham Lincoln? And how was he caught?
Victorian
Q&A
Could modern medicine have saved Abraham Lincoln?
Victorian
Abraham Lincoln: the greatest US president?
Elizabethan
Q&A
Why was Sir Walter Raleigh executed?
Georgian
The extraordinary legend of highwayman Dick Turpin
Stuart
King James VI and I: your guide to the first Stuart monarch of England
Advertisement MPU index
Elizabethan
The real John Blackthorne in
Shōgun
: the true story of samurai William Adams, the first Englishman in Japan
Medieval
Who was St David? The history of St David’s Day and its traditions
Elizabethan
The Bisley Boy: was Queen Elizabeth I replaced by a man? The real history that debunks the conspiracy
Premium
Membership
Video podcast
The West’s enduring fascination with Asia
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Georgian
Your guide to Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite Rebellion, plus 10 facts you might not know
20th Century
The real story of Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball
Prev
Page
1
You're currently on page
2
Page
3
Page
4
Page
232
Next