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BBC History Magazine

June 2015

Blasphemous Bibles and cannibals at sea: 4 bad days in history

Magna Carta: A turning point in English history

Man smoking a pipe, early 17th century

Q&AWhen was tobacco first thought to be dangerous?

Photo of pipe and tobacco

Q&ADid people smoke anything before tobacco was discovered?

Wolfson History Prize 2015 special

In picturesStonehenge tourism through history

Guy Fawkes “is like a modern-day jihadist,” says counter-terrorism expert

Mary I’s phantom pregnancy

Magna Carta

Books interview with David Starkey: "The Magna Carta of 1215 was designed to create a revolutionary regime"

VE Day special

Diarmaid MacCulloch

Engraving of a brewery

General ancient history

Q&AWho made the first booze?

Female warriors from Benin

Q&AHas there ever been a women-only army?

Actors in a staging of Shakepeare's 'Macbeth'

Q&AWhy don't actors refer to the Shakespeare play Macbeth by name?

BBC History Magazine

In pictures: shoes through history

Magna Carta and the Holocaust

8 weird and wonderful Victorian discoveries

What did people wear in Ancient Egypt?

Watch: David Starkey on Magna Carta

A relief portrays patrons of a Roman tavern. (Photo By DEA / A. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

The dangerous streets of ancient Rome

A painting showing the defeat of the Spanish Armada

The Spanish Armada: all at sea

Medieval universities and an unlikely friendship

The undignified fates of the bodies of Anglo-Saxon kings in the medieval period

Snail poultices and blood potions: 9 weird medieval medicines

Gallipoli and famine

My favourite place: Vanessa Collingridge

Elizabeth I: what does this forgotten portrait tell us about her?

John Sergeant

My history hero: Arthur Ransome

Bet Giorgis, Ethiopia

My favourite place: Northern Ethiopia