October 2013

Articles from the October 2013 issue of BBC History Magazine

This 16th-century woodcut depicts King James VI at the North Berwick witch trials, the case that first sparked his obsession with hunting. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

James VI and I: the king who hunted witches

Saul David.

My favourite history books 2013: Saul David

Ashley Jackson.

My favourite history books 2013: Ashley Jackson

Paul Cartledge

My favourite history books 2013: Paul Cartledge

Alison Weir.

My favourite history books 2013: Alison Weir

The then Princess Alexandra pictured here in 1884 wearing the high-necked, feminised version of the male suit that became associated with her. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Who’s the best-dressed Briton in history?

Bust of Herodotus. "Herodotus gives us access to someone's speech, their opinion, 2,500 years ago," says Tom Holland. (Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

Books interview: Herodotus’s ‘The Histories’

A woman is carried away on a stretcher following a German bombing raid on London, c1940. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Second World War

The dangers of the Blitz spirit

Peter Jones.

My favourite history books 2013: Peter Jones

Professor Richard Bradley investigates the Neolithic tomb of Wayland's Smithy. The stone monument we see today hides an earlier wooden structure that held the remains of 14 people. (Photo by Oliver Edwards)

General prehistory

History Explorer: Neolithic treatment of the dead

Franklin D Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the USA, and a "hugely important figure in the history of the 20th century". (Getty Images)

My History Hero: Franklin D Roosevelt (1882- 1945)

The June 1933 cover of the Radio Times. (Photo by Sarah Fabian-Baddiel/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Changing times: 90 years of the Radio Times

Paul Delaroche's 19th-century painting shows King Edward V and the Duke of York in the Tower of London. What happened next has puzzled historians for centuries. (The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The princes in the Tower: why was their fate never explained?

Illustration by Jonty Clark.

Ye olde travel guide: Heidelberg 1618