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Tracy Borman

“If you think you know Henry VIII, think again”: 5 minutes with Tracy Borman

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September 2019 issue of BBC History Magazine out now!

Actor and comedian Lee Mack in 'Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans'. (Image by Nick Wall)

Making history funny: is any historical topic off-limits?

Historian Greg Jenner

Making jokes about Romans

Historian, presenter and author Dan Jones. (David Levenson/Getty Images)

Dan Jones on the Templars and ‘Knightfall’

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