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BBC History Magazine

August/September 2017

Illustration by Sarah Young

Ælfthryth: England’s first queen

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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.

8 remarkable historical events that happened in May

From dragons to unicorns: finding fantastic beasts in ancient history.

The Islamic enlightenment.

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June 2017

Armoured cars unloaded in Shanghai in 1927

China’s public image war.

Scandal, conspiracy and the affair of the poisons: inside the court of Louis XIV.

Historical fiction and a US murder scandal.

'Their Finest' and the British films that inspired the home front during the Second World War.

Veteran cars – a 1898 Benz and an early Panhard – outside Glover Brothers Cycle Makers, c1900. (Photo by National Motor Museum/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

How the Victorians ruined the world.

Verona skyline with river Adige, bridges, Santa Anastasia Church and Torre dei Lamberti or Lamberti Tower at dawn view from Castel San Pietro, Italy. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Verona, Italy

Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto, a PPP candidate (Pakistan People's Party), campaigning from the sun roof of a car. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

My history hero: Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007).

Procession of Charles II between the Tower of London and Westminster on the eve of his coronation, 1661. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

1660: The year that changed everything.

A view of Hampton Court Palace, London. (Getty Images)

Simon Thurley on the architectural history of the Tudors.

From left: Fern Riddell, a cultural historian specialising in sex and suffrage; Janina Ramirez, a broadcaster and historian based at the University of Oxford; Joann Fletcher, a broadcaster and writer, and an Egyptologist at the University of York; Anna Whitelock, a historian of royal and early modern history, based at Royal Holloway, University of London. (Photography by Helen Atkinson)

What is it like to be a female historian in the 21st century?.