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Oswald Mosley receives a fascist salute from his followers in October 1936

Who were the young people drawn to Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists?.

British Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher faces the press outside London's Europa Hotel following her victory in the leadership election, 20 February 1975. (Photo by Frank Barratt/Keystone/Getty Images)

Bolting to the ballot box: Snap elections through history

Medieval manuscripts and the First World War.

Britain’s road to democracy: slow and not always steady.

An older couple is watching a Canadian soldier with a bulldozer working in the ruins of a house in the rue de Bayeux.10th July 1944. The church towers in the background have survived the Allied bombing intact. Caen, Normandy, France. (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

D-Day: the successes and failures in focus.

A brief history of... the Derby

Seven princesses with the name ‘Cleopatra’ are credited as sitting on the throne of Egypt. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Q&AHow many Cleopatras ruled Ancient Egypt?

The Six-Day War and the Great Fire of London.

The Beatles arrive in Japan

1966: the Beatles' tumultuous world tour.

Video: Historian Dan Jones on the Great Fire of London 1666

Should historical place names be changed to fit modern values? Historians debate.

Myth-making and belonging: the coins of the Roman provinces.

Civil wars and Restoration England.

Albert Einstein, standing in front of the Einstein Tower in 1926. (Photo by ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Q&AWhy the Einstein Tower was renamed – twice.

BBC History Magazine

August/September 2017

Illustration by Sarah Young

Ælfthryth: England’s first queen

BBC History Magazine

History Extra website: tell us what you think

Portrait of Richard Wagner, 1883. (Photo By DEA/A Dagli Orti/De Agostini/Getty Images)

My History Hero: Richard Wagner (1813–83).

Elizabeth Fry visiting Newgate Prison, 1926. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Elizabeth Fry: the great reformer.

The Knights of the Round (Miniature from La Quête du Saint Graal et la Mort d'Arthus), c1220. Found in the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

King Arthur: the big questions.

Portico entrance of Oxford's famous Ashmolean Museum. (Dreamstime)

History explorerThe history of British museums.

The Giralda tower and cathedral seen across the Plaza de la Alianza, Seville, Spain. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Seville, Spain

Travelling Mass set, c1535, consisting of a silver-gilt chalice; a paten (Communion plate) and a glass bottle for wine, with a leather box in which to carry them. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Henry VIII's savage Reformation

England’s bloody Reformation.

History quiz – Quakers and Kingmakers.

The operation

John Hunter and the horrors of 18th-century surgery.

Queen Victoria’s dinners and Henry VIII’s niece.

Engraving of Henry VIII, king of England (Photo by Getty)

History quiz - holidays and Henry VIII.

A series of images depicting Victorian women wearing crinolines, c1860. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Stitching the fashions of the 19th century: who dressed the 19th-century elite?

Martin Luther and the making of the USA.