August 2025 issue of BBC History Magazine out now!
The Live Aid phenomenon
David Hepworth reflects on the enormous rock concerts that changed the face of live music
The queen who started a revolution
Breeze Barrington tells the story of Maria of Modena, the Italian Catholic pitched into a hostile Protestant court
Victorian Britain’s boxing sensations
Sarah Elizabeth Cox introduces the pugilists who punched their way to fame in the golden age of bare-knuckle prize-fighting
The Srebrenica massacre
Why did the world fail to stop the worst act of mass killing on European soil since the Second World War? Jan Willem Honig investigates
The triumph of Art Deco
Emma Bastin celebrates the centenary of the interwar design movement that swept through Europe and the US
Medieval warhorses
From the triumph of William the Conqueror to the downfall of Richard III, Oliver H Creighton and Robert Liddiard reveal how horses shaped British history
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