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Richard III reconsidered.

BBC History Magazine

December 2017

Neville Chamberlain is underestimated, argues author Robert Harris.

My favourite place: Jaipur

The Munich Conference.

The May 1940 War Cabinet Crisis: Churchill’s darkest hour?.

The world of the Scythians.

What are Henry VIII powers?

England's Norman queens and the power they wielded: an interview with Alison Weir.

The burning of Templars, from ‘De casibus virorum illustrium’ by Giovanni Boccaccio. Found in the collection of the British Library. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

The Templars: a brief history.

David Starkey on the Reformation.

The 1267 Treaty of Montgomery: a prince’s hope for the future of Wales.

Tales of war.

Victoria the matchmaker.

A bust of Queen Nefertiti of Ancient Egypt. (Photo by Oliver Lang/AFP/Getty Images)

Q&AWhere is Nefertiti’s mummy?

Christianity and the classical world.

The Ukrainian famine.

View of the Cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, Italy. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Florence, Italy

West Indian immigrants arrive at Victoria Station, London, following their journey from Southampton Docks. Originally published in ‘Picture Post’, 1956. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Getty Images)

Clair Wills on immigrants.

Italian writer Primo Levi sitting at a desk in his study. Turin, 1981. (Photo by Sergio del GrandeMondadori PortfolioMondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

My history hero: Primo Levi (1919–87).

Addington and Napoleon facing each other across a narrow channel, from a caricature by James Gillray. Illustration from the magazine ‘The Graphic’, 9 July 1881. (Getty Images)

Britain and France: the best of enemies.

Michael Wood on… the Galloway Hoard

The 19th-century auction that saved Shakespeare’s birthplace.

The Knights Templar.

A c1880 advertisement poster for Coca-Cola. The name derived from its extracts of coca leaves and kola nuts – the former did contain small amounts of cocaine. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

Q&ADid the original Coca-Cola drink really contain cocaine?

William Marshal: the greatest knight.

The History Hot 100.

‘Quacks’: the terrors and theatrics of Victorian medicine.

Viking Britain.

King Arthur feasting at Camelot

Q&AHow old is the ‘British Empire’?