March 2016

Articles from the March 2016 issue of BBC History Magazine

British military behind a barricade, 1916. (Photo by ullstein picture via Getty Images)

First World War

The Easter Rising: when Ireland went to war

Chinese lanterns at Kek Lok Si temple, George Town, Penang, Malaysia. (Photo by Inti St Clair/Getty Images)

My favourite place: Penang, Malaysia

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The Grand Bridge at Blenheim. (Getty Images)

History explorer: Blenheim Palace and Capability Brown

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Bhimrao Ambedkar, May 1946. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

My history hero: Bhimrao Ambedkar (1891–1956)

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A portrait of Babur, founder of the Mughal dynasty which ruled over much of India from 1526 to 1858. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

How people make the past

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(Photo By DEA/G DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

The Tudor sex guide

Elizabeth I’s Armada portrait. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images

The Tudors’ unlikely allies

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An illustration of Edmund Spenser’s poetic work ‘The Shepheardes Calender’

The dark side of Elizabethan England

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An illustration from Dickinson's ‘Comprehensive Pictures of The Great Exhibition’. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

Heyday: the 1850s and the dawn of the global age

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Borris, County Carlow, Ireland. (Photo by Timothy Seren/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

The wild man of County Carlow

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Illustration by Clair Rossiter

What was the best meal in history?

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Michael Wood on… that Cecil Rhodes statue

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