On Sunday 4 October 1936, the East End of London was convulsed by street fighting. Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists had organised a march through the area – home to a multicultural ...
In 1974, bombs planted by the IRA exploded at pubs in Guildford and Birmingham. With the police under pressure to catch those responsible, a series of miscarriages of justice followed. The ...
To celebrate BBC History Magazine’s 20th birthday in 2020, we asked 20 experts to nominate a historical enigma that they’d dearly love to see solved. Later, we released a series of podcasts that ...
Test your knowledge on the Elizabethan period, from Elizabeth I’s court to the Spanish Armada… Lauren Good is the digital ...
How was Spencer Perceval assassinated? It was early evening on 11 May 1812, and the prime minister was running late. He was rushing to get to a session of evidence on a question that had been ...
It was a crushing Macedonian victory, with tens of thousands of Persians slaughtered in the chaos. After 45 years of Cold War division, East and West Germany were reunified after East Berlin and the ...
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On the night of 26 September 1983, at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union’s early-warning missile detection technology sprang to life. It was the worst-case scenario: the United States, the ...
In a career that went from gracing the cover of Vogue to capturing the horrors of war zones and Nazi death camps, Lee Miller is remembered for defying expectations at every turn. Once a model, muse ...
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