Subscribe
Columnists
Newsletters
Historical TV and Film
Today in history
Download our app
The official website for BBC History Magazine
Search
Period
Back to
Main menu
Ancient Egypt
Roman
Viking
Anglo-Saxon
Medieval
Tudor
Elizabethan
Georgian
Victorian
Second World War
View all Periods
People
Back to
Main menu
Tutankhamun
Richard III
Henry VIII
Elizabeth I
Queen Victoria
Winston Churchill
Cleopatra
Napoleon Bonaparte
View all People
Topics
Back to
Main menu
Kings and queens
Weird and wonderful
Sex and love
Social history
Religious history
Women's history
Historical Q&As
Heritage visits
History hero
Historical recipes
Turning points in British history
View all Topics
Podcast
Back to
Main menu
All podcasts
Episodes by topic
Podcast club
Podcast series
Back to
Podcast
The tiger tamer who went to sea
Historical conspiracies
Everything you wanted to know about...
Boston Tea Party: Igniting a Revolution
Shakespeare: Past Master
Life of the week
Cundill History Prize 2023
The First Crusade
Great Reputations
US Civil Rights: fighting for freedom
History's greatest cities
Long reads
Caesar: Death of a Dictator
Six Wives
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Mary Rose
Tutankhamun
15 minutes of fame
The black death
Salem witch trials
Video
Back to
Main menu
All video
Video podcasts
Bitesize history videos
Video series
Back to
Video
The Holocaust with Laurence Rees
Tudor Royal Women
Femina: Women of the Middle Ages with Janina Ramirez
Medieval Masterclass with Dan Jones
Monarchy masterclass with Tracy Borman
Quizzes
Membership
Back to
Main menu
Membership area
Academy
Back to
Membership
Witchcraft course
Regency course
Vikings course
Elizabethans course
Magazines
Back to
Main menu
BBC History Magazine
BBC History Revealed
BBC World Histories Magazine
Subscriber downloads
Special editions
About us
Subscribe
Subscribe
Subscribe
Columnists
Newsletters
Historical TV and Film
Today in history
Download our app
Home
Period
General History
General History
General History
Put these events in order
Discoveries in the history of medicine
On This Day
Historical anniversaries
February
General History
Water gods and sea goddesses: 17 water deities from world history
Advertisement MPU index
Premium
Membership
Video podcast
Ireland’s tangled relationship with empire
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Premium
Membership
What centuries of cost-of-living crises can reveal
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Premium
Membership
Christopher Harding
“Europeans have been obsessed with the east’s spiritual depths since Alexander the Great”
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Premium
Membership
The West’s enduring fascination with Asia
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
General History
Upcoming in 2024
Historical anniversaries, exhibitions and television
Premium
Membership
Ireland’s tangled relationship with empire
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Advertisement MPU index
Premium
Membership
Life hacks from history
Get a good night’s sleep
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Premium
Membership
Britain’s long love affair with sport
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
General History
Traitor or Faithful
British history's most notorious treason cases
General History
Quiz
Can you put these monarchs in the correct order?
Premium
Membership
A history of song: from Schumann to Sting
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Premium
Membership
History Behind the Headlines: Elections, ‘panda diplomacy’ and the word of the year
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Prev
Page
1
Page
3
You're currently on page
4
Page
5
Page
31
Next