20th Century

Eleanor Roosevelt

My history hero: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)

An elevated view over Stiftskirche & surrounding township, Baden-Baden, Germany

My favourite place: The Black Forest, south-west Germany

England captain Bobby Moore

My history hero: Bobby Moore

A view of English Harbour in Antigua

My favourite place: Antigua

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Pin-up girls through history – in pictures

Picture of Chrysippus of Soli

Q&A Has anyone ever died of laughter?

Photo of cherry bakewells

Q&A Is the Bakewell tart really from Bakewell?

First World War

The German view on the First World War

Photo of Uruguay football players celebrating victory

Q&A Who won the first FIFA World Cup?

Nelson Mandela and wife Winnie Mandela upon his release from prison. (Photo by Allan Tannenbaum/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

My history hero Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)

(Copyright Punch Limited)

10 amazing Punch magazine sketches from 1859 to 1981

How did it become a gesture of well-wishing to say to an actor before they go on stage

Q&A Why do we say ‘Break a leg’?

(Illustration: Jonty Clark for BBC History Magazine)

Ye olde travel guide: Goree, 1782

Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist Cyril Lionel Robert James talking to a group of students at Speakers' Corner, London, in 1967. (Photo by Roy Milligan/Daily Express/Getty Images)

My history hero: CLR James (1901–89)

First World War

Coming soon: “Our First World War”