April 2014

Articles from the April 2014 issue of BBC History Magazine

Portrait of King Henry VI by an unknown artist. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

The miracle of Henry VI: how the weak medieval king became a ‘saint’

Welsh Labour politician Aneurin Bevan making a speech on the freedom of the press at a meeting of the National Council of Civil Liberties at Central Hall, Westminster, London, in 1942. (Photo by Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Getty Images)

My history hero: Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan (1897–1960)

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An illustrated map of Savannah, Georgia

Ye olde travel guide: Savannah, 1859

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The Sedgeford Portrait, which is said to show Pocahontas and her young son, Thomas. (© Getty)

In search of the real Pocahontas

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Portrait of Miranda Kaufmann. (Image by Jeni Nott)

History explorer: Africans in Tudor and Stuart Britain

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Canadian troops returning from the combined operations raid at Dieppe. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Second World War

Britain and France: Empires under fire

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American actor and singer Howard Keel records 'Kiss Me Kate' with his co-star Patricia Morrison, 1964. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

The growing pains of BBC Two

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The inmates' dining hall at the Poplar Poor Law Union workhouse in London, 1903. Though it was widely reviled, the Poor Law would survive another 45 years. (Mary Evans)

Living in the shadow of the workhouse

A scene from the 1963 film 'Naked Among Wolves', depicting a Nazi concentration camp

Second World War

The long shadow of Adolf Hitler

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The Cobbe portrait, which dates from c1610. This image's "provenance and claim to be painted from life makes a compelling case" for it being an accurate likeness of William Shakespeare, says Paul Edmondson. (Getty Images)

Shakespeare: 7 burning questions about his life

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When beans were the food of lust

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The family of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, c1910.

Books interview with Helen Rappaport: the Romanov sisters