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Medieval zombies: how the walking dead haunted the Middle Ages.

Living through Partition.

George Warleggan. (Image credit: BBC/Mammoth Screen/Robert Viglasky)

The real history behind 'Poldark' series three: episode eight

Dunkirk: 6 big questions on a remarkable rescue mission.

View of Halong Bay taken from the top of an island. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Vietnam

The lost objects of South Asia.

The brilliance of Henry James.

In the recent episode of Poldark, Dwight Enys once more displayed modern medical skill. (Image credit: Mammoth Screen / BBC)

The real history behind 'Poldark' series three: episode seven

Money, love and revenge: the motivations of spies through history.

Portrait depicting Mary, Queen of Scots.

History quiz - surgeons and Mary, Queen of Scots.

The LibraryThe English in America.

BBC History Magazine

September 2017

Germany’s World War Two.

'Poldark' character Aunt Agatha (left) draws our attention to the often-ignored figure of the 18th-century spinster, says Hannah Greig. (Image credit: BBC/Mammoth Screen/Robert Viglasky)

The real history behind 'Poldark' series three: episode six

Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Rivoli

Napoleon Bonaparte's greatest triumphs and disasters

Test pilot Melitta Schiller (right), Berlin, June 1943. (Photo by DRK/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

The women who flew for Hitler: an interview with Clare Mulley.

Michael Wood… on radical Islamism.

The LibraryVoices of the Cold War.

Ironbridge over the river Severn in Telford, England. (Getty Images)

History explorer: The power of British iron.

My history heroNick Knowles chooses Julius Caesar (100–44 BC).

An Iranian Jewish woman walks past the graves of Polish Jews who died in Iran during and after the Second World War

The LibraryThe incredible tale of the WW2 Poles who fought back.

The Pilgrim Fathers leaving Delft Haven on their voyage to America, July 1620. Image dates from 1878. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

England’s migrant crisis.

BBC History Magazine

BBC World Histories – back issues

The LibraryA legendary spymaster.

Ross Poldark takes on a dangerous mission to liberate his friend Dwight from Quimper prison in France. Quimper was a real prison, which was "notorious for its terrible conditions", says historian Hannah Greig. (BBC/Mammoth Screen/Robert Viglasky)

The real history behind ‘Poldark’ series three: episode five

Hans Sloane and the British Museum.

The LibraryFemale flyers in Nazi Germany.

George Warleggan begins to gain power as a Justice of the Peace in the third series of 'Poldark'. (Mammoth Screen/BBC)

The real history behind ‘Poldark’ series three: episode four

Tower Bridge: Uncovering the history of a London landmark.

Children at war.