September 2020 issue of BBC History Magazine out now!
The latest issue of BBC History Magazine is now on sale!
Inside our September 2020 issue, on sale 6 August 2020…
The race for the bomb
Diana Preston chronicles the scientific and political developments that led to the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima
The war in the east
Jonathan Fennell explores how the British Army turned the tide against Japan in the Second World War
African renaissance
Afua Hirsch on the ways that Africa’s artists are moving beyond the continent’s colonial past
Edward the Confessor
Tom Licence profiles the Anglo-Saxon king, and discovers a determined, dynamic man far from his feeble image
Trump: like no other?
Mark White on whether Donald Trump really is a president without precedent
Medieval marginalia
Johanna Green shines a spotlight on life in the margins of historical texts
The all-conquering potato
Rebecca Earle charts how colonialism and industrialism helped propel the humble spud to worldwide domination
SUBSCRIBE TODAY to get our next issue: The October 2020 issue of BBC History Magazine is on sale from 3 September 2020, featuring medieval eels, Anne Boleyn’s final days and the story of a remarkable royal dynasty that established the short-lived Sikh empire in 1799
