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Martin Luther (centre) preaching. With one hand he points to popes, monks and cardinals going down the mouth of hell; with the other he points to the crucifix. (Getty Images)

Books interview with Eamon Duffy: "You could call the Reformation the original Brexit".

British comedian and actor Arthur Askey at the London Palladium, February 1968. (Photo by David Cairns/Daily Express/Getty Images)

History Hero: Arthur Askey (1900–82).

Full-length portrait of (left) American showman Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810–91) and entertainer Commodore Nutt (1814–81), c1862. (Photo by HultonGetty/GettyImages)

Circus sensation: PT Barnum's greatest wheezes.

Illustration by Hugh Cowling

Will history survive the digital age?.

Terracotta vicar and Moses, c1770, in the Victoria And Albert Museum, London. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Vicars on the liquor.

Irish national hero Hugh O'Neill, the 2nd Earl of Tyrone, makes a formal submission to the English following the suppression of his Irish rebellion, 1603. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The LibraryHugh O'Neill: Elizabeth I’s Irish nemesis.

Utopias in history and an environmental disaster.

From bats and brawls to new links between colonies: the origins of Australian cricket.

Bribes, gifts and scandal: 7 stories of corruption that shocked Britain.

Postwar occupations and Raleigh bicycles.

The Celts: unpicking the mystery.

Viceroy’s House: the history behind the film.

The Reformation.

BBC History Magazine

April 2017

Charles Darwin sports his trademark bushy beard in 1877. (Photo by Corbis Historical/Getty Images)

From Charles Darwin’s beard to George Eliot’s right hand: 4 famous Victorian bodily quirks.

A revolutionary engineer and Victoria’s Indian confidant.

War: the locomotive of history?.

A drawing of surgeon James Barry (c1789–1865) in uniform. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

Dr James Barry: a surgeon with a secret.

First World War

“We die like brothers”: The sinking of the SS Mendi

BBC History Magazine

In pictures: The photographs of William Henry Fox Talbot

Czar Nicholas II with family. (Getty Images)

Books interview with Robert Service: "Nicholas II brought the Russian Revolution upon his own head".

The roots of modern rage.

British reenforcement land on 'Gold Beach' for the big push into the Normandy town of Caen

An eyewitness account of the Normandy landings, France, 1944.

Tom Holland in conversation with Pankaj Mishra about his book Age of Anger

Age of Anger: Pankaj Mishra in conversation with Tom Holland.

Illustration of the capture of Jerusalem during the third crusade

Crusader, deserter and traitor: the life and legacy of Raymond III of Tripoli.

The Tibetan plateau lies at an altitude averaging over 4,500 metres above sea level

In the footsteps of Sir Francis Younghusband's 1903 invasion of Tibet.

Colourful streets of the Bo-Kaap district in Cape Town South Africa

ExploreCape Town: Africa’s ‘Mother City’.

Anonymous engraving, master of the garden of love, 15th century, France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale. (Photo by: Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

7 ways to say “I love you” in medieval Europe

British leader of the Labour Party Clement Attlee leaves the Treasury, 27 May 1945. (Photo by AFP/Getty Images)

My history hero: Clement Attlee (1883–1967).

Robin Hood statue outside Nottingham Castle. (Getty Images)

History Explorer: the legend of Robin Hood.