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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

The Christmas 2018 issue of BBC History Magazine is out now

Christmas 2018 issue of BBC History Magazine out now!

(Illustration by Eleanor Shakespeare for BBC History Magazine)

The Library Books of the year 2018

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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)

From Stirling Castle to the Ness of Brodgar: Neil Oliver chooses 5 fascinating places to visit 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)

Ian Kershaw on the trials of writing modern history

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Dan Jones on the secrets of popular history

Dan Jones on the secrets of popular history

Beard presents an episode of the BBC's 2018 headline arts series, 'Civilisations'. (Image credit: BBC/Nutopia)

Mary Beard: “I couldn’t give a toss what Roman emperor Donald Trump was most like” plus 3 other things we learned about her

Podcast Website large Mary Beard

Mary Beard’s life in Classics