BBC History Magazine - 17 Apr 2025
THE PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF VE DAY
SCOTLAND’S WITCH TRIAL FRENZY
Medieval Europe’s greatest love story?
Who fired first?
Mummy needs wine
THREE THINGS I’VE LEARNED THIS MONTH
Philippe Sands
Islam Issa
George Goodwin
Martha McGill
The people’s history of VE Day
Medieval Europe’s greatest love story?
Ireland’s Great Famine
Who fired first?
Scottish witch hunts
Interview: Philippe Sands discusses the intertwined stories of a Chilean dictator on trial and a Nazi on the run
Anniversaries
My history hero Michael Buerk chooses Robert FitzRoy
Frank Trentmann discusses the history oH tariʘs and trade wars
Michael Wood on a treasure trove of medieval manuscripts
Diary: Things to see and do this month
Recipe: Original macaroni cheese
Q&A History questions answered
New history books reviewed
Explore: Saltaire, Bradford
Hidden Histories
Prize crossword
Letters
“We walked home feeling as if a huge cloud had lifted off our shoulders”
historyextra.com
Haile Selassie returns to Ethiopia
5 MAY 1862
Preston Brooks assaults Charles Sumner
30 MAY 1381
Globalism is ironing out the fabulous texture and diversity of the old world
Brushstrokes from the Front Lines
RED CROSS ART EXHIBITION
LEAV E A GIFT T H AT ’ S N E V E R F O R G OTTEN
Lines of the landscape
Wartime memories
Making nations
Grave omission
Frozen in time
Frozen in time
Captive queens
Parting gifts
“We sang, we we danced and all held hands”
“We sang, we we danced and all held hands”
SCOTLAND'S SEASON OF THE WITCH
When did people first start wearing undergarments?
Why did the Romans tax urine?
What happened to Eva Perón’s body after she died?
DID YOU KNOW…?
… To put a spoke in the wheel?
Who were night-soil men?
How did Quakers become involved in chocolate-making?
What was a ‘murder bottle’?
A year to remember
A timeless love story?
It was the shot heard around the world... But who fired it?
It was the shot heard around the world... But who fired it?
THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION
THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION
When blight began devastating potato crops across Ireland in 1845, British officials immediately recognised the dangers.
Egypt’s grape expectations
Fermenting change
God of wine
Philippe Sands on former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s arrest in London in 1998
“The Americans were determined to make the defeat of Japan their own project”
“In the last 10 years of the Cold War, large numbers of forbidden texts were smuggled into Poland”
“The devastation wrought by the peasant bands was utterly unprecedented”
“She said: ‘If you represent Pinochet in this case, I will divorce you’”
PROFILE
Fire from the sky
Fire from the sky
Japan’s desolation and atonement
Stream of consciousness
War of words
Adriane Lentz- Smith on a novel look at a historic episode of racial injustice
The other peasants’ revolt
Killer headlines
Killer headlines
EXHIBITIONS
Troubled reign
The original macaroni cheese
A model of innovation
PRIZE CROSSWORD
Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, Through the Women Written Out of It
Solution to our March 2025 crossword
Portrait of the Tudors
Roman rebellion
The making of a radical
Crimes of the times?
The gardens of the world
African queens
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