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May 2018

Articles from the May 2018 issue of BBC History Magazine

Richard Burbage
Elizabethan

Richard Burbage: The vanishing act of the star who outshone Shakespeare

Fern Riddell.
Edwardian

Books interview with Fern Riddell: “Can we call the suffragettes terrorists? Absolutely”

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Fremantle's High Street, with 19th-century buildings.
General Modern

My favourite place: Western Australia

German social, political and economic theorist Karl Marx (1818 - 1883). (Photo by Henry Guttmann/Getty Images)
Victorian

Karl Marx: the godfather of revolution

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Norsk Hydro's Vermork plant
Second World War

The Special Operations Executive: Churchill’s secret army

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An illustration of Peter Williamson
Georgian

Peter Williamson: The diehard Scot

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An oil on panel portrait of Elizabeth Woodville
Plantagenet

Elizabeth Woodville: Edward IV’s controversial queen

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Thomas Becket
Medieval

England’s forgotten civil war

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Sleeping man
Medieval

Sleep tips from history

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Fremantle's High Street, with 19th-century buildings.
Victorian

My favourite place: Western Australia

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Krystyna Skarbeck, also called Christine Granville
Second World War

My history hero: Krystyna Skarbek

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Kinder Scout
20th Century

History explorer: The fight for the right to ramble

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Norman cavalry charge the enemy in this detail from the Bayeux Tapestry. Debate rages over the pros and cons of the tapestry leaving France for the first time in more than 900 years. (Photo by Photo 12/Getty Images)
Norman

Will the Bayeux Tapestry actually come to Britain?

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