BBC History Magazine - 10 Jul 2025
WARHORSE
Victorian boxing sensations
HOW LIVE AID CHANGED THE WORLD
The queen who started a revolution
DESIGNS FOR MODERN LIFE
WELCOME
THREE THINGS I’VE LEARNED THIS MONTH
Breeze Barrington
Sarah Elizabeth Cox
Shrabani Basu
David Hepworth
The Live Aid phenomenon
Victorian Britain’s boxing sensations
The Srebrenica massacre
Medieval warhorses
The queen who started a revolution
Shalina Patel, Sumita Mukherjee, and Shrabani Basu discuss South Asian Heritage Month
Interview: Jonathan Healey on the chaos that sparked the Civil War
The triumph of Art Deco
Diary: Things to see and do this month
The Reverend Richard Coles on the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte
Anniversaries
Michael Wood on the medieval ght against tyranny
History questions answered
Explore: The Piece Hall, Halifax
New history books reviewed
Recipe: A Tudor salad
Hidden Histories
Prize crossword
Letters
“Heavily armoured and emblazoned with arms, these were elite steeds, trained in a royal stud network”
Queen Anne’s death heralds the birth of the Georgian era
Queen Anne’s death heralds the birth of the Georgian era
Basque warriors devastate Charlemagne’s army
9 AUGUST 1974
New York newspaper announces lunar civilisation
23– 24 AUGUST 1572
“There’s little understanding of the shared history of Britain and the subcontinent”
THE PANEL
When justice is sovereign, the wicked are stripped of all power
A UK museum that tells the long, rich history of migration is long overdue
HISTORY’S GREATEST CONSPIRACY THEORIES
The heroic everyday
Queen of hearts?
Chain reaction
Web development
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We reward the Letter of the Month writer with a copy of a new book. This issue, that’s Ring of Fire: A New Global
History of the Outbreak of the First World War by Alex Churchill and Nicolai Eberholst.
WRITE TO US
“The Age of Spectacle starts here”
WHEN BOB TURNED THE AIRWAVES BLUE
The queen in the eye of a storm
The queen in the eye of a storm
MARIA’S MOMENTS
A bare-knuckle boozer
Who was the last Prince of Wales to speak fluent Welsh?
A selection of historical answered by experts Is it true that newly elected popes once had to undergo a highly sensitive physical ‘inspection’?
Were high heels invented for use by men?
DID YOU KNOW…?
Where was the Fountain of Youth?
What would it have been like to watch a Shakespeare play being performed during his lifetime?
Who was Norton I, emperor of the United States?
What was the Pig War of 1859?
Over the course of four days in July 1995, Bosnian-Serb forces murdered more than 8,000 men and boys – in a United Nations-protected ‘safe area’.
Designs for life
Designs for life
The People’s Princess
Ancient influencers
Military machine
Unfamiliar lands
Stranger than fiction
Make Mercia great again
WARHORSE
1 1066 and all that
2 The Bruce’s canny cavalry gambit
3 Under his dead body
4 Did a lost horse doom a dynasty?
5 How the mighty have fallen
In the 1980s, post-punk pop singer Adam Ant styled himself as a ‘dandy highwayman’
“If unsuccessful, capitalism causes poverty; if successful, it ravages the planet”
“The period of Indira Gandhi’s political dominance constitutes a distinctive era”
“The authors describe how the First World War broke out and what it looked like from the inside”
Jonathan Healey on the dramatic actions of Charles I that sparked the Civil War
“A connection was made between the rare ed world of the royal court and the politics of the street"
The opening salvo
The opening salvo
Fighting talk
India’s Iron Lady
What lies beneath
Islam Issa on an influential medieval treatise on the study of history
Capital ideas
Dress to impress
Past tense
Island unifier
Island unifier
A temple to textiles
War is over
What the Etruscans did for us
The first king of England
Pepys in private
The Christian revolution
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