January 2020 issue of BBC History Magazine out now!
Were medieval people cleaner than we think? Plus smiling Victorians and how prohibition transformed America...
Inside our January 2020 issue…
Medieval filth?
Katherine Harvey dishes the dirt on the Middle Ages’ passion for hygiene
Orwell’s political journey
Phil Tinline charts how the author became a champion of democracy
The Vampyre stirs
Richard Sugg describes the unholy birth of vampire entertainment
Smiling Victorians
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones reveals a softer side to our stern 19th-century forebears
The legacy of prohibition
Lisa McGirr discloses the dizzying side-effects of the US’s ban on alcohol
An amazing life
John Woolf on the adventures of Jeffrey Hudson, a dwarf in Charles I’s court
Queen against the odds
Kathryn Warner on the triumphs of Edward III’s wife, Philippa of Hainault
A history of the body
Joanna Bourke probes how our views on different body parts have evolved
PLUS
Thoughts from columnists Michael Wood and David Olusoga. Plus, Martha Lane Fox chooses her history hero
NEXT ISSUE: The January 2020 issue of BBC History Magazine is on sale from 23 January 2020, featuring the Spanish Armada, George IV, and the aftermath of the liberation of Auschwitz
