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BBC History Revealed June 2022

June 2022 issue of BBC History Revealed out now!

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HistoryExtra Monarchy Masterclass: The Plantagenets (1216–1485) with Tracy Borman . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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HistoryExtra Monarchy Masterclass: Hastings to Magna Carta (1066–1215) with Tracy Borman . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Anna Whitelock looks back on some key moments that made the historical headlines in 2021

The state of history in 2021

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Untold story of a slave rebellion wins the 2021 Cundill History Prize

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Think piece Why history must take a stance

Greg Jenner talks about his latest book, Ask A Historian, which tackles 50 burning questions that people have about the past. (Image by Fran Monks for BBC History Magazine)

What would you ask a historian?

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Courage under fire: the story of a WW2 tank regiment

Public historians Helen Carr and Suzannah Lipscomb explore how we should make sense of studying the past in 2021

History in 2021, with Helen Carr and Suzannah Lipscomb

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?

Portrait of William III of Orange, found in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

How glorious was the Glorious Revolution?

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Wolfson History Prize 2021 special

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

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”