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Chatsworth House

History explorer: Politics and power in Georgian Britain.

Notre Dame and Paris, France

The LibraryMy favourite place: Paris, France

American novelist John Updike

My history hero: John Updike (1932-2009).

Journey’s End: behind the scenes of the new First World War film.

Britain’s secret wartime prison.

Living with the oceans.

My favourite place: Paris, France

The story of the Bayeux Tapestry.

A scene depicted on the 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry.

Bayeux Tapestry to be loaned to the UK: historians react.

East End crime.

How English is the Bayeux Tapestry?.

What’s the real history behind ‘Britannia’?

Scythians: the art of war.

The real history behind Victoria series two

Prisoners of war.

A woman looks at 'The Recognition of Philopoemen', c1609 by Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens at the Museo del Prado, Madrid. (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

A beginner's guide to art history.

Mary Shelley and her monster.

'Darkest Hour': an interview with director Joe Wright.

Bowie’s Berlin: the city that shaped a 1970s masterpiece.

The tragedy of Lady Jane Grey.

Q&AWhy were cats so important in Ancient Egypt?

6 trivial decisions that changed British history.

Ron Chernow on Alexander Hamilton: the man behind the hit musical.

BBC History Magazine

February 2018

My favourite place: Marrakech, Morocco

Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin stands beside an American flag, soon after landing on the Moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission. (Photo by NASA/Liaison)

OpinionWas the Moon landing really a great leap for mankind?.

Churchill’s darkest hour.

Nefertiti

Has the world been blinded by Nefertiti’s beauty?.

Fiona Sampson"Mary never shook off the consequences of eloping with Shelley".

Chetham library

History explorer: Public libraries.