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BBC History Magazine

Solving the mystery of the Elephant Man?

My favourite historical places: Dr Marc Morris

Historian at the Movies: Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom reviewed.

18th-century snapshots of Windsor Castle

BBC History Magazine

Cabinet papers reveal 'secret coal pits closure plan'

BBC History Magazine

January issue out now

The aftermath of the Second World War.

Khudadad Khan

My history hero: Khudadad Khan (1888-1971).

Illustration by Becca Thorne.

Deadly beasts of Tudor England.

Ye olde travel guide: Prague 1600.

The Black Death and Tudor adventurers.

Can Britain make nuclear power work this time around?.

Ed Morrison with Nelson Mandela. (Image: Ed Morrison)

When I met Mandela: 1995 Rugby World Cup final

This detail from the Gundestrup Cauldron – a richly decorated silver vessel thought to date from the second-century BC – depicts a Celtic god or druid surrounded by beasts. (Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

The genius of the Celts.

Great Train Robbery’s Ronnie Biggs dies

BBC History Magazine

Men from the Ministry: How Britain Saved its Heritage

Chinese irregular cavalry and infantry from the north-western provinces move towards the front during the 1894–95 war

China's wars

A Christmas card from the First World War

First World War

First World War Christmas cards

Nelson Mandela special.

Second World War

Myth of foreign Nazi volunteers ‘debunked’

BBC History Magazine

My favourite historical places: Dr Elaine Farrell

Renewed debate over battle of Hastings location

Nelson and Winnie Mandela days after his release, 1990. (Photo by Gideon Mendel/Corbis)

Nelson Mandela: “a symbol of the struggle against racism”.

The legacy of the First World War and Gandhi's early years.

Historian at the Movies: Saving Mr. Banks reviewed.

BBC History Magazine

My favourite historical places: Dr Julie Barrau

BBC History Magazine

Harry Houdini escape artist props to go under hammer

Revealed: the tomb of Henry VIII's forgotten son

History explorer: the catastrophe of the Black Death.

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Ballarat 1854.