April 2014

Articles from the April 2014 issue of BBC History Magazine

20th June 1934: Welsh Labour politician Aneurin Bevan (1897 - 1960). (Photo by New York Times Co./Getty Images)

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

An illustrated map of Savannah, Georgia

Ye olde travel guide: Savannah, 1859

Portrait of Miranda Kaufmann. (Image by Jeni Nott)

History explorer: Africans in Tudor and Stuart Britain

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

Second World War

The Library Britain and France: Empires under fire

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

David Attenborough with mountain gorillas, on location during filming for BBC 'Life on Earth' series in Rwanda 1979

The growing pains of BBC Two

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

Polish prisoners at Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, c1943. (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

The Library The long shadow of Adolf Hitler

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

(Illustration: Clair Rossiter for BBC History Magazine)

The Library When beans were the food of lust

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Books interview with Helen Rappaport: the Romanov sisters

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

In search of the real Pocahontas