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)

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

Illustration by Sarah Young

Ælfthryth: England’s first queen

Entrance to Lincoln Castle. (Dreamstime)

The Library Lincoln: the battle that gave birth to medieval England

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

My History Hero: Richard Wagner (1813–83)

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

Elizabeth Fry: the great reformer

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

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)

King Arthur: the big questions

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

History explorer The history of British museums

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

My favourite place: Seville, Spain

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)

Henry VIII’s savage Reformation

Annie Gray portrait by Ian Farrell

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