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
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Georgian
The London Beer Flood of 1814: what happened in the deadly tragedy?
Georgian
7 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Napoleonic Wars
Medieval
Q&A
Why is Friday 13th unlucky?
Advertisement MPU index
21st Century
Are black histories still being overlooked?
General Modern
Radio Times at 100: a “vivid running commentary” on a century of British life
Medieval
How the real Dick Whittington lives up to his pantomime
20th Century
The rise of the poison pen: 6 cases of anonymous hate mail in Britain
Georgian
8 scandals that shocked Georgian Britain
Anglo-Saxon
How the Kingdom of Northumbria changed Anglo-Saxon England
Advertisement MPU index
Medieval
Why is the battle of Bannockburn remembered as Scotland’s greatest victory?
20th Century
When Vichy France banned rugby
Norman
Q&A
Who was Eadnoth the Staller?
Medieval
What if…
Henry V hadn't died in 1422?
Tudor
Keep calm and carry on trading: how English merchants reacted to the Spanish Armada
Tudor
Becoming Elizabeth
The real history behind the new Tudor drama
Prev
Page
1
Page
5
You're currently on page
6
Page
7
Page
220
Next