May 2018

Articles from the May 2018 issue of BBC History Magazine

For our forebears, the secret to a good night's sleep lay in the contents of your gut. (Photo by Leemage/UIG via Getty Images)

6 sleeping tips and tricks from history

Richard Burbage

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

Fern Riddell.

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

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

My favourite place: Western Australia

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

The Library Karl Marx: the godfather of revolution

Norsk Hydro's Vermork plant

Second World War

The Special Operations Executive: Churchill’s secret army

An illustration of Peter Williamson

Peter Williamson: The diehard Scot

An oil on panel portrait of Elizabeth Woodville

Elizabeth Woodville: Edward IV’s controversial queen

Thomas Becket

The Library England’s forgotten civil war

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

My favourite place: Western Australia

Krystyna Skarbeck, also called Christine Granville

Second World War

My history hero: Krystyna Skarbek

Kinder Scout

History explorer: The fight for the right to ramble

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)

The Library Will the Bayeux Tapestry actually come to Britain?