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BBC History Magazine

The English Civil Wars, 1640-1660

BBC History Magazine

Who Will Write Our History?

BBC History Magazine

The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England

BBC History Magazine

Satan: A Biography

Second World War

Hell’s Cartel: IG Farben and the Making of Hitler's War Machine

BBC History Magazine

Pistols at Dawn

BBC History Magazine

The Hemingses of Monticello

BBC History Magazine

Buccaneers of the Caribbean

BBC History Magazine

Famine: A Short History

Local Heroes

The medieval castle in the English county of Kent

The King and his castle: how Henry II rebuilt his reputation.

'The Fountain of Youth', 1546. Artist: Lucas Cranach the Elder

Everard Digby: the man who taught Tudors to swim.

The LibraryThomas Becket and 16th-century swimming.

Medieval petitions and 17th-century astronomers.

The Industrial Revolution is revisited and Big Ben turns 150.

Recreating a Victorian farm and the life of Captain Cook.

The burning of Templars (From: De casibus virorum illustrium by Giovanni Boccaccio). Artist: Master of the White inscriptions (active ca 1480)

The Templars on trial: a very muted inquisition.

Thomas Paine on both sides of the Atlantic and the plight of the suffragettes.

D-Day and the Templar on trial.

A Nazi serial killer and a Tudor gentleman.

British history: the turning points.

Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announces the outbreak of the Second World War in a BBC broadcast, 1939. (Fox Photos/Getty Images)

History hero: Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914).

Hampton Court and the Amritsar massacre.

The Matchgirls strike and back to 1918.

The legend of King Arthur and fighter pilots.

Miss Ivy Williams

6 trailblazing women in history.

Official First World War Photographers

Britain’s First World War flying aces.

The LibraryAn adulterous scandal and a grisly end.

Attenborough on Darwin.

Zulu wars and American presidents, past and present.