January 2015

Articles from the January 2015 issue of BBC History Magazine

Lancelot fights for Guinevere

The real King Arthur and his Lancelot: Henry the Young King and William Marshal

A treasury of old tubbery, Regency shower 12 feet high was a fancy bathing apparatus in England around 1810, pump lifted water from tank at bottom through pipe to top tank, water could be used over and over again. (Photo by Eliot Elisofon/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

General prehistory

Waking up with Plato: the history of our morning routine

Huts in Lambeth built for bombed-out families, 1945. (Getty)

Second World War

Britain in 1945: Life in the shadow of victory

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Second World War

The Library Forgotten voices of the Holocaust

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The Tudors in 50 moments: part 2

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Charles II: Too randy to rule

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Books interview with John Guy: “Henry VIII had a mindset that you might associate with Stalin or Mao”

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My favourite place: Miles Russell

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Sam’s historical recipe corner: Tiger nut balls

Public sector workers taking industrial action protest in the centre of Bristol on July 10, 2014. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

The historians’ view: is wage stagnation a modern phenomenon?

Hitler and his general staff

Second World War

1945: The race for Berlin

Edith Louisa Cavell, 1865 1915. British Nurse And Patriot, Executed By The Germans For Helping Allied Soldiers Escape From German-Occupied Belgium During World War I. From The Story Of 25 Eventful Years In Pictures, Published 1935. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

First World War

My history hero: Edith Cavell (1865–1915)

Juno Temple at the Valley of temples, Agrigento, Sicily.

My favourite place: Sicily

Wallingford Castle

History explorer: Stephen and Matilda’s fight for the throne