January 2014 cover

January 2014

Articles from the January 2014 issue of BBC History Magazine

A portrait of Charles I. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Has history been unfair to Charles I?

10 photographs that made history

The history of the calendar

Nelson Mandela

Mandela: the 20th century’s greatest leader?

My history hero: Yolanda of Aragon (d1442). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye olde travel guide: Turin, 1887. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian Miles Russell. (Photography by Philip Hartley for BBC History Magazine)

History explorerExtravagance in Roman Britain: a visit to Fishbourne Roman Palace. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Pillage of Jerusalem

Crusading for God and gold

Troops on a night raid during the First World War

Jeremy Paxman: "The war finished Britain off in many respects". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Author Linda Colley.

Acts of union and disunion. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Great Ulster Rally in Hyde Park, April 1914.

1914: Why the war caught Britain cold

The front cover of a 1924 edition of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf'

Beyond the Hitler diaries

Can Britain make nuclear power work this time around?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.