July 2019

Expert history articles from the July 2019 issue of BBC History Magazine

In 1733, as part of a plot to blow up a Protestant church, a group of Catholics claimed they were being terrorised by a poltergeist… or so the story went. (Illustration by Ben Jones for BBC History Magazine)

5 Georgian ghost hoaxes

England Women's World Cup squad, Mexico, 1971

The 1971 Women’s World Cup: game changers?

The Lord's pavilion

Lord’s cricket ground: the mecca of the sport

Royal at arms: In a 14th-century manuscript, Henry III (left) is shown fighting his nobles during the Second Baron's War (1264–67). This was both a revolutionary war and, from the perceptive of Henry's foes, a religious conflict. (Image by Bridgeman)

The barons’ crusade: why rebel lords waged holy war against Henry III

A police officer uses his baton on a protester in Glasgow, 1919

1919: Britain’s red summer

Marked man: Charles I shown in a detail in Anthony van Dyck's famous portrait. In his final days, the king's attempts to play his enemies against one another backfired spectacularly. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images)

Why Charles I had to die

British soldiers guard an oil pipeline, leading from Iraq to Palestine, at the Kishon river, in what is now Israel, in 1941. When Baghdad was retaken, the flow of oil was restored. (Image by Bridgeman)

Second World War

The (forgotten) Iraq war

John Hardyng, a royal spy and cartographer who witnessed some of the 15th century's most extraordinary events. (Illustration by Sue Gent for BBC History Magazine)

John Hardyng: Henry V’s secret agent

Master of the New College of the Humanities in London, Professor AC Grayling is a philosopher who has written and edited more than 30 books. (Image by Christian Sinibaldi-Eyevine)

Books interview with AC Grayling: “A great philosophical mind is one that belongs to a childish heart – always curious, always open”

Arthur Ashe in action at Wimbledon, where he won the men's singles title in 1975. (Photo by Ed Lacey / Popperfoto / Getty Images)

My history hero Tracy Austin chooses Arthur Ashe

A statue of President Andrew Jackson stands in front of the Tennessee State Capitol building in Nashville. (Image by Getty Images)

Travel Explore Nashville, Tennessee: the beating heart of the American south

St Catharine's College, Cambridge has already removed a bell from view after concluding it came from a slave plantation. (Image by Alamy)

Anna Whitelock Confronting slavery’s legacy

1960s model. (Photo by Alamy)

Women in the 1960s