June 2018

Articles from the June 2018 issue of BBC History Magazine

A c1536 portrait of Jane Seymour by Hans Holbein the Younger.

Alison Weir on Henry VIII’s third wife: “Jane Seymour had the courage to stand up for what she cared about”

A statue of Æthelflæd – erected in Tamworth to mark the 1,000th anniversary of her fortifying the town. (Photo by Chris Gibson/Alamy Stock Photo

Aethelflaed: who was the warrior queen who crushed the Vikings?

The wrecked remains of an Allied glider that participated in Market Garden

Second World War

Why Operation Market Garden, the Allies’ battle for Arnhem, was a disaster in the planning

N Dubois de Chémant demonstrating his own, and a grotesque female patient's false teeth, to a prospective male patient with grossly disfigured teeth. (Wellcome Collection)

The Library A bite-sized history of dentistry

A Georgian painting depicting children leaving for school

The Georgian guide to perfect parenting

A 14th-century Flemish illustration depicting the burying of plague victims in coffins in Tournai in 1349. (Photo by Granger Historical Picture Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

Black Death: “Oh father, why have you abandoned me?”

The beach at Lyme Regis, on the Jurassic Coast of Devon and Dorset, has attracted fossil hunters for centuries. (Getty Images)

Where history happened: Georgian fossil hunting

Medieval buildings lining the Dijver canal in the centre of the Belgian city of Bruges. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Bruges, Belgium

Freddie Mercury – born Farrokh Bulsara – on stage at Brondby Hallen, Denmark. (Photo by Jorgen Angel/Redferns/Getty Images)

My history hero: Aled Jones chooses Freddie Mercury (1946–91)

A painting depicting the battle of the White Mountain

Europe’s apocalypse: the Thirty Years’ War