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Victorian Christmas: 3 recipes to try at home

BBC History Magazine

Sexy shoes: 5 things our footwear has said about us through history

Portrait of Mary I of England, from the collection of the Museo del Prado, Madrid. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Mary I: a highly impressive queen cut off in her prime

Cover of the Voyages Extraordinaires series by the French science fiction writer Jules Verne.

The phantom menace: 10 milestones in science fiction

A Kamikaze pilot scores a direct hit on a US aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean, c1942. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

The reluctant kamikaze of the Second World War

The Duke of Wellington and the Earl of Winchilsea in a duel at Battersea Fields. (Culture Club/Getty Images)

Pistols at dawn: duelling in the Victorian age

A portrait of King Edward VI of England

Who was the real Edward VI?

Winged warriors: pigeons in the First World War

Diorite stela inscribed with the laws of King Hammurabi of Babylon, around 3,800 years ago. Hammurabi sits enthroned at top of the stela. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Q&AWho first attempted to regulate medicine?

A reconstructed round house at Flag Fen, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. (Alamy)

History Explorer: Life in the Bronze Age

Student radicals and Crete in WWII

BBC History Magazine

In pictures: the history of Marvel comic books

Sam’s historical recipe corner: Wassail punch

BBC History Magazine

Pleb: a history of the word that sparked ‘plebgate’

10 facts about Clifton Suspension Bridge

British statesman and writer Winston Churchill, aged 26. Photograph by Elliott & Fry. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Second World War

Books interview with Boris Johnson: "Churchill was a tremendous bully in some ways, but we needed a bully"

Tudor dining: a guide to food and status in the 16th century

Photo of bees

First World War

Q&AWhat was the Battle of the Bees?

BBC History Magazine

The historians’ take on… The house price boom

BBC History Magazine

TV & radio: what to tune in to next week (5–11 December)

One of the statues of Ramesses II at Luxor temple, which is "a wonderful place to spend a few hours". (Getty)

My favourite place: Luxor, Egypt

A portrait of Charles II, by 17th-century painter John Michael Wright

History explorer: The Restoration

The North Sea and Bronze Age remains

8 facts about Old Sarum – an Iron Age fort, Roman settlement and medieval city

Pliny the Elder depicted in a mid-12th century miniature, writing and giving his book to Roman emperor Vespasian. (Photo by Photo12/UIG/Getty Images)

My history heroPliny the Elder (AD 23–79)

Malcolm X chats with Eric Abrahams – the Oxford Union president who vowed to “fill the room with blacks” – before giving his famous address on 3 December 1964. (Getty)

Malcolm X in Oxford: Black power amid dreaming spires

After Richard III, is it time to dig up other famous skeletons?

Richard III: latest DNA study ‘doesn’t prove bones belong to former king’

First World War

In WW1, what did the Allies want to achieve?

Historic San Felipe de Barajas castle is one of the main attractions in Cartagena, Colombia. (Image: Thinkstock by Getty Images)

General prehistory

My favourite place: Cartagena de Indias, Colombia