BBC History Magazine - 12 Jun 2025
Elizabeth’s forbidden love
How the Luftwaffe lost the Battle of Britain
Slides, swings and bomb craters
CAESAR’S FINAL REVENGE
Medieval England’s century of calamities
THREE THINGS I’VE LEARNED THIS MONTH
Sir Keir Starmer
Jon Winder
Helen Carr
Alex Churchill
How the Luftwaffe lost the Battle of Britain
Elizabeth I’s forbidden love
Tudor calendar of death
Five little-known facts about… the First World War
Swings and roundabouts
Suing for equality
Caesar’s funeral drama
Pauline Black on jazz and swing singer Billie Holiday
Interview: Helen Carr explores 'ngland’s calamitous 14th century
Michael Wood on the importance of enduring place names
Rebecca Rist explores the history of popes and papal conclaves
Sir Keir Starmer discusses the continued relevance of VE Day
Diary: Things to see and do this month
Historic Cities: Sydney, Australia
History questions answered
New history books reviewed
Recipe: Ancient olive relish
Explore: Haytor, Dartmoor
Hidden Histories
Prize crossword
Anniversaries
Letters
“Elizabeth gave the duke a ring from her finger – along with a kiss”
Hitler’s antisemitic manifesto is published
DANNY BIRD highlights events that took place in July in history
A theological fissure splits Eurasia
13 JULY 1793
26 JULY 1847
Pétain goes on trial for treason
“The pope doesn’t have to be a great theologian – but he has to be in tune with the zeitgeist”
“Freedom and democracy are not to be taken for granted”
Nlace names are signposts to the past. And how revealing they are
Life’s rich tapestry
Life’s rich tapestry
Toil and trouble
CHANNEL SICKNESS
CHANNEL SICKNESS
IN NUMBERS
IN NUMBERS
IN NUMBERS
IN NUMBERS
Rewriting the record
Say cheese
Making his way
Landscapes of lore
All that glitters
Over the hump
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ELIZABETH I’S FORBIDDEN LOVE
Romancing the throne
The controversial Catholic
When did the British mania for garden gnomes begin?
What were penny dreadfuls?
When was the tank invented?
Befender ’f the faith
Was Alexander the Great buried alive?
Who were the Vestal Virgins?
Who was Spring-Heeled Jack?
What was the Bonnot Gang?
Sarah Mae Flemming Segregation-busting bus commuter
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CAESAR’S FUNERAL DRAMA
THE CALENDAR OF DEATH
Deadly cold and woodland woes
Fatal foliage and football
The price of poverty, the cost of crows
Risking it all for birds and blooms
When leisure turned lethal
Drowning by numbers
The hidden horrors of harvests and haystacks
Carts, crops and pitchforks
Mellow fruitfulness – and falls
Perils of ploughing
FIVE THINGS YOU (PROBABLY) DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT… the First World War
Swings
and Round abouts
ROPES, PULLS AND A JOY WHEEL
James was devoted to building an image of himself as a wise Solomon or a Phoebus, god of sun and light
“British mistakes on D-Day were dwarfed by those of the Germans”
“This boldly original book invites us to re-envisage the history of theatrical imagination”
Helen Carr on the monarchs and events that defined 'nglandos 14th century
CULTURAL “The author notes that ‘almost every second person on Earth speaks Indo-European’”
“Edward III perpetrated one of the most brutal acts of war committed during the Middle Ages”
Britain goes global
Britain goes global
Making waves Content producer Danny Bird picks episodes of our podcast about an era that transformed Britain’s international standing
Beach warriors
Christopher Harding
on a study of the creation of Japan’s 20th- century identity
Shaping Shakespeare
Nation-building
Ancient awe
Wind from the east
Rock of ages
PRIZE CROSSWORD
My kingdom for a horse
Fight like a Victorian
The Art Deco century
One vision
The descent into civil war
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