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Queen Elizabeth I

“All unperfect and incorrect”: Tracy Borman on the discovery of an Elizabethan gem

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Christmas 2019 issue of BBC History Magazine out now!

Olivette Otele for BBC History Magazine.

Olivette Otele: UK’s first female black history professor to research Bristol’s links to slave trade

George Frederic Watts' 1846 painting 'Alfred Inciting the Saxons to Prevent the Landing of the Danes'

Michael Wood “As a racism row rumbles on, is it time to retire the term ‘Anglo-Saxon’?”

Illustration by Davide Bonazzi.

Second World War

The WW2 obsession: why the world can’t move on from 1945

Max Hastings by Fran Monks

Second World War

Max Hastings on the Dambusters

Suzie Lipscomb by Steve Sayers.

Suzannah Lipscomb on women’s lives in Reformation France

Tom Holland by Helen Atkinson

Tom Holland on Christianity’s enduring legacy

Tracy Borman

“If you think you know Henry VIII, think again”: 5 minutes with Tracy Borman

Actor and comedian Lee Mack in 'Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans'. (Image by Nick Wall)

Making history funny: is any historical topic off-limits?

Historian Greg Jenner

Making jokes about Romans

Historian, presenter and author Dan Jones. (David Levenson/Getty Images)

Dan Jones on the Templars and ‘Knightfall’

Danny Dyer’s Right Royal Family. (Image Credit: BBC/Wall to Wall Media/Jack Coathupe)

Danny Dyer is “making people think again” about history, say historians

Richard Evans. (Photo by Fran Monks for BBC History Magazine)

Books interview with Richard J Evans: “For Hobsbawm, communism was a matter of life and death”

Sir Godfrey Kneller's portrait of Anne Stuart. Following the 1707 Acts of Union, she would be queen of Great Britain and Ireland. (Photo by Getty Images)

“A charming, popular monarch”: Tracy Borman on Queen Anne