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May 2017

Articles from the May 2017 issue of BBC History Magazine

Portrait of Martin Luther by Lucas Cranach, 1543. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)
Tudor

Europe’s holy war: how the Reformation convulsed a continent

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Illustration by Sarah Young
Anglo-Saxon

Ælfthryth: England’s first queen

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Entrance to Lincoln Castle. (Dreamstime)
Medieval

Lincoln: the battle that gave birth to medieval England

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Portrait of Richard Wagner, 1883. (Photo By DEA/A Dagli Orti/De Agostini/Getty Images)
Victorian

My History Hero: Richard Wagner (1813–83)

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Elizabeth Fry visiting Newgate Prison, 1926. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)
Georgian

Elizabeth Fry: the great reformer

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The Spanish town of Guernica after the bombing by German and Italian aircraft, 1937. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)
Second World War

Guernica

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The Knights of the Round (Miniature from La Quête du Saint Graal et la Mort d'Arthus), c1220. Found in the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
Medieval

King Arthur: the big questions

Portico entrance of Oxford's famous Ashmolean Museum. (Dreamstime)
Georgian

History Explorer: The history of British museums

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The Giralda tower and cathedral seen across the Plaza de la Alianza, Seville, Spain. (Getty Images)
Medieval

My favourite place: Seville, Spain

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Travelling Mass set, c1535, consisting of a silver-gilt chalice; a paten (Communion plate) and a glass bottle for wine, with a leather box in which to carry them. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
Tudor

The Library Henry VIII's savage Reformation

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Annie Gray portrait by Ian Farrell
Victorian

“For Queen Victoria, food was a way of exploring the world”: an interview with Annie Gray

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