October 2015

Articles from the October 2015 issue of BBC History Magazine

Alan M Turing and colleagues working on the Ferranti Mark I Computer, 1951.

Second World War

Alan Turing: The man, the enigma

A scene from an early rugby union game

The history of rugby

Brutus begs his companion to kill him in a 1756 painting by Giacomo Zampa. Having been decisively defeated in battle by Mark Antony and Octavian – later to rule Rome as emperor Augustus – Brutus felt he had little choice but to commit suicide. (Photo by Alfredo Dagli Orti-Art Resource, NY)

7 things that happened in October through history

Battle Of Agincourt

Agincourt: medieval England’s finest hour?

A 1985 production of 'Julius Caesar'. For all their despotism, Romans thanked their first three emperors for delivering them from the curse of civil war. (Photo by Jean-Jacques BERNIER/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

The glorious Caesars

Soldiers following the battle of the Somme

First World War

Books interview with Andrew Roberts: “I’d like to put an end to the ‘Blackadder’ view of the First World War”

Portrait of King Henry VIII

My history hero: Henry VIII (1491-1547)

Roscoff, Brittany, France

My favourite place: Brittany, France

Ruthven Barracks

The Library History Explorer: The Jacobite uprisings

An illustration of the Georgian underclass

The power of the Georgian underclass

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Second World War

The Library The History Essay: How Europe rose from the dead

Winston Churchill by Yousuf Karsh

Simon Schama’s portraits of a nation

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In pictures: Celtic art and identity

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Michael Wood on… the battle of Agincourt

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My favourite place: Mark Stoyle