July 2017

Articles from the July 2017 issue of BBC History Magazine

King John hunting on horseback, 14th century. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Was King John murdered?

Crew members of the French destroyer Bourrasque, sunk by mine at Dunkirk, are hauled aboard a British vessel from their sinking life-raft. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Second World War

Dunkirk: 6 big questions on a remarkable rescue mission

View of Halong Bay taken from the top of an island. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Vietnam

Test pilot Melitta Schiller (right), Berlin, June 1943. (Photo by DRK/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Second World War

The women who flew for Hitler: an interview with Clare Mulley

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Michael Wood… on radical Islamism

Ironbridge over the river Severn in Telford, England. (Getty Images)

Industrial revolution

History explorer: The power of British iron

The Library Nick Knowles chooses Julius Caesar (100–44 BC)

An Iranian Jewish woman walks past the graves of Polish Jews who died in Iran during and after the Second World War

Second World War

The Library The incredible tale of the WW2 Poles who fought back

The Pilgrim Fathers leaving Delft Haven on their voyage to America, July 1620. Image dates from 1878. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

General Early Modern

England’s migrant crisis

Two Hitler Youth who have surrendered to Allied Forces, Germany, 1945. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

First World War

Innocence under fire

West Berlin inhabitants wave at the newly erected Berlin Wall, 1961. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)

What brought a thaw in the Cold War?