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BBC History Revealed, September 2021

September 2021 issue of BBC History Revealed out now!

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September 2021 issue of BBC History Magazine out now!

From the eruption of Vesuvius to Chernobyl and Covid-19, Niall Ferguson charts how disasters have changed the course of history

What can we learn from past catastrophes?

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Wolfson History Prize 2021 special

Cundill History Prize 2021: news, jurors, shortlist and winner

Young woman gets hair cut in to a bob

A brief history of changing hairstyles

To mark HistoryExtra’s 1,000th episode, Dan Jones takes us on a whistlestop tour through the last millennium of British history. (Image by Steve Sayers)

Dan Jones on 1,000 years of British history

British author Sathnam Sanghera

Sathnam Sanghera Britain's Imperial Legacy: “It was painful to realise how my education had colonised me”

Author and biographer Max Adams

Max Adams Britain in the centuries after the Romans: “You can think of this era as a black hole into which our history tumbles”

Volunteers shovel sand in Fulham in 1941, filling bags used to protect windows from bomb blasts. Our clichés of the Blitz don’t tell the whole story, writes Lucy Worsley. (Photo by Mary Evans)

Second World War

Lucy Worsley on Blitz Spirit: the courageous stories of six Londoners

Historians have chosen their favourite historical novels.

22 of the best historical fiction novels to help you escape to the past

Adolf Hitler photographed with British politician Henry Vane-Tempest Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry (left) and Joachim von Ribbentrop (right), minister of foreign affairs of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945. (Photo litzy ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Making friends with Hitler: Britain’s pre-war admiration for the Nazi dictator

Speech of Adolf Hitler to the Reichstag inthe Kroll Opera in Berlin after the Declaration of war to the USA, in addition to the lectern to the right: Press Chief Otto Dietrich and the personal adjutant of Hitler Albert Bormann the Brigade Commander o

Second World War

“One of the most puzzling decisions of WW2”: Ian Kershaw on why Hitler declared war on America

Elizabeth I preferred thoughtful new year gifts suited to her own tastes such as cloth, personal jewellery and trinkets. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Sobriety, royal presents and Victorian-era musings on failure: an unexpected history of New Year

HistoryExtra podcast picks 2020

2020 round-up: we choose our top HistoryExtra podcasts of the year