March 2012

Articles from the March 2012 issue of BBC History Magazine

A view towards the Carew estuary between a dry stone wall and the ruins of Carew Castle, Pembrokeshire, UK. (Dreamstime)

Where history happened: Tudor courtiers with Suzannah Lipscomb

Painting depicting medieval nuns. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

17th-century nuns on the run

Mikado Maids

A big day in history: Gilbert and Sullivan unveil ‘The Mikado’

A hand-coloured lithograph showing St Patrick, national apostle of Ireland. (VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

Britain’s medieval identity crisis

Vintage map of the Bahamas. (Library of Congress)

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Bahamas 1718

'Tirpitz' hiding in a Norwegian fjord in 1942. “She outclassed anything in the British fleet,” says Patrick Bishop. (Getty Images)

Second World War

The Second World War: sinking the Tirpitz

A painting depicting the Duke of Wellington at the battle of Waterloo. "Wellington’s victories at Roliça and Vimeiro in 1808 were the first significant defeats inflicted upon the French emperor’s armies in Europe," says Saul David. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

The triumph of the redcoats

Hard labour: a woman tarring and flinting in Oxford Street, central London, 1919. (Getty Images)

First World War

The Library “Our Excess Girls": women after the First World War

A woodcut showing the interior of a kitchen in Elizabethan England. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Library Hold your noses - it’s the Elizabethans!

Ernest Bevin

My history hero: Ernest Bevin (1881-1951)

AXDC2T The Biddenden Charity Dole Kent UK 2008 Easter Monday. Also know as Chulkhurst Charity after Elisa & Mary Chulkhurst 1100-1134. Image shot 2008. Exact date unknown.

Q&A: What are the Easter treats known as Biddenden cakes?