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July 2019 issue of BBC History Magazine is out now

July 2019 issue of BBC History Magazine out now!

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

A poverty-stricken migrant mother with three young children by Dorothea Lange, colourised by Marina Amaral. (Photo courtesy of Head of Zeus)

History in colour

(Illustration by Eleanor Shakespeare for BBC History Magazine)

The Library Books of the year 2018

Dan Snow on shell shock.

First World War

Dan Snow on shell shock

Winchester History Weekend 2017.

Winchester History Weekend

BBC History Magazine’s Winchester History Weekend 2018 kicks off today – and you can still grab some last-minute tickets

Left: Historian Lucy Worsley at Kensington Palace, the childhood home of Queen Victoria, ahead of her interview for the History Extra podcast. Right: Queen Victoria sits for a portrait photograph. (Photo by W&D Downey via Getty Images)

Lucy Worsley on Queen Victoria: your questions answered

Lucy Worsley. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

Queen Victoria by Lucy Worsley

A statue of Robert the Bruce at Stirling Castle in Scotland. The castle "is in many ways like a bottleneck – so much of Scottish and British history passes through it and goes off to its eventual destination,” says Neil Oliver. (Photo by Iain Masterton via Getty Images)

BBC presenter Neil Oliver on his top 5 must-visit places in Britain

Lauren Mackay.

History Weekends 2018: 5 minutes with Lauren Mackay

Historians Sam Willis (left) and James Daybell. "We challenged ourselves to write the histories of things we weren't necessarily even sure had a history," says Willis. (Photo by David Hampton for BBC History Magazine)

Winchester History Weekend

History Weekends 2018: 5 minutes with Sam Willis and James Daybell

Protesters on the streets of Prague during the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968. Of all the history books Ian Kershaw has authored down the decades, his two wide-ranging volumes on modern Europe have proved the most difficult to write. (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images)

The Library Ian Kershaw on the trials of writing modern history