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.

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?