Subscribe to BBC History Magazine
Newsletter sign up
Download app
Join our Academy
The official website for BBC History Magazine
Search
Period
Back to
Main menu
Ancient Egypt
Roman
Viking
Anglo-Saxon
Medieval
Tudor
Elizabethan
Georgian
Victorian
Second World War
Back to
Period
Browse all periods
People
Back to
Main menu
Tutankhamun
Richard III
Henry VIII
Elizabeth I
Queen Victoria
Winston Churchill
Cleopatra
Napoleon Bonaparte
Back to
People
Browse all people
Topics
Back to
Main menu
Kings and queens
Weird and wonderful
Sex and love
Social history
Religious history
Women's history
Historical Q&As
Heritage visits
History hero
Historical recipes
Turning points in British History
Back to
Topics
Browse all topics
Video
Podcast
Quizzes
Membership
Back to
Main menu
Membership area
Academy
Back to
Membership
Regency course
Vikings course
Elizabethans course
Witchcraft course
Magazine subscription
Subscribe to BBC History Magazine
Newsletter sign up
Download app
Join our Academy
Home
Literature
Literature
Premium
Membership
Documents that changed the world
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
First World War
WW1 poets
5 famous figures you should know about
Victorian
10 facts about
Wuthering Heights
author Emily Brontë
Advertisement MPU index
Victorian
The Brontës: the unfortunate and unlikely tale of the world’s “greatest literary sisters”
Tudor
The downfall of Thomas Cromwell
Premium
Membership
History’s greatest mysteries
The Voynich Manuscript
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Membership
Geoffrey of Monmouth: the lost voice of ancient Britain
Victorian
The real history behind Victorian thriller ‘The Limehouse Golem’
Premium
Membership
Exclusive podcast
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Advertisement MPU index
Premium
Membership
The history of the Bible
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Medieval
The Voynich Manuscript: who wrote the mystery medieval codex and what is it trying to tell us?
Premium
Membership
The cosmopolitan Chaucer
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Premium
Membership
Cosmopolitan Chaucer: the 14th-century poet’s inventive, international life
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Premium
Membership
Bernard Cornwell on writing historical fiction and his blockbuster series
The Last Kingdom
: your questions answered
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Membership
Adultery, elopement and incest: the scandalous sex lives of the 18th-century Byrons
Prev
Page
1
Page
11
You're currently on page
12
Page
13
Page
19
Next