BBC History Magazine - 21 Nov 2024
CHURCHILL IS HE STILL THE GREATEST BRITON?
CLEOPATRA’S FECKLESS FATHER
WHO KILLED THE KING OF SCOTS?
2024’s BEST HISTORY BOOKS
WHEN SEX WAS A SIN
Pedigrees, pets and piles of poo
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THIS ISSUE’S CONTRIBUTORS
THREE THINGS I’VE LEARNED THIS MONTH
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Books of the year:
When sex was a sin
Black America on British airways
Five fascinating facts about… the history of dogs
Cleopatra’s feckless father
Still the greatest Briton?
A history of happiness
Who killed James III?
Anniversaries
Michael Wood
Diary:
Recipe:
Q&A
Historic Cities:
Christmas crossword
Hidden Histories
Christmas quiz
Letters
“Churchill’s craving to make himself ‘great’ lies at the heart of his extraordinary story”
Britain’s deadliest avalanche strikes
Beatlemania goes stateside
“With messiness and complexity in mind, I defy anyone to look British history in the face and feel an
uncomplicated sense of pride”
“We should be proud of our
accountable government, religious liberty and press freedoms”
“I hope no one wants me to
act as scorekeeper – adding points for Shakespeare and deducting them for the Amritsar Massacre”
“The issue of pride or shame has less to do with history than with today’s
culture wars”
OUR DOCTORS SAVE LIVES. SO CAN YOUR WILL.
She had a wonderful gift for teasing out the voices of the past
KAVITA PURI
Phoney war
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Phoney war
Why sex was a sin
Why sex was a sin
LESS SEX, MORE POWER?
Celibacy was regarded not just as second-best to marriage but, worse still, a popish superstition
BLACK AMERICA ON BRITISH AIRWAVES
CULTURE & CLASHES
What was the Brown-Stigler Incident?
Why is Egypt’s Narmer Palette so important?
How did medieval people deal with waste?
DID YOU KNOW…?
Colonial carol
…Face the music?
What is the rudest thing one might see at a medieval church?
What was the Nazino tragedy?
Was there really a sport called cock-threshing?
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THE FATHER FROM HELL
FIVE THINGS YOU (PROBABLY) DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT… the history of dogs
STILL THE GREATEST?
YOU CAN SLEEP BETTER
Keep smilling
Don’t bank on money alone
Adopt a healthy attitude
Play happy families
Find faith and fortune
Harness the power of words
Who killed James III?
2024 BOOKS OF THE YEAR
2024 BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Kavita Puri
Leah Redmond Chang
James Holland
Onyeka Nubia
Peter Frankopan
Tracy Borman
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Sathnam Sanghera
Alice Loxton
Rana Mitter
Mary Beard
A child’s war
A child’s war
Lives of the artists
EXHIBITIONS
Victorian Christmas pudding
Lal Qila (Red Fort)
Meditation on inclusion
Safdarjung’s Tomb
'XPLOR' MOR' HISTORICAL CITI'S ON HISTORYEXTRA
CHRISTMAS QUIZ 2024
Twelve days of Christmas
Food and drink
The past in the news 2024
Quiz answers
A section on Santas
PRIZE CROSSWORD
Great presidents
The Marco Polo myth?
Hell at Monte Cassino
Medieval civil war
The suffragette Pimpernel
Gunpowder extremists
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