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March 2020 issue of BBC History Magazine out now!

Michael Wood at BBC History Magazine's History Weekend in Chester (Photo byVictoria Tetley / VJT Photography)

Michael Wood on the Peterloo photograph

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A history of nakedness in art: Mary Beard on her new BBC series Shock of the Nude

Historian Mary Beard at the Oxford Literary Festival 2019. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

Mary Beard on the nude in western art

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

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2019 round-up: we choose our top 12 HistoryExtra podcasts of the year

Queen Elizabeth I

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

Olivette Otele for BBC History Magazine.

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

A ‘Trabi’ – the classic East German Trabant 601 car

The cost of unity: Ian Kershaw on the fall of the Berlin Wall

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