Across Europe the killings continued, and millions were starving, homeless and traumatised. Little wonder, writes Keith Lowe, that celebrations marking the end of the Second World War were often muted...
The renowned poet Lord Byron has gone down in history for being "mad, bad and dangerous to know". But his ancestors were hardly paragons of virtue either, writes Emily Brand, who explores three generations of Georgian debauchery in her new book. Here, she shares just a few of the notorious scandals – from shipwrecks to incest…
Some 52,000 prisoners from across Europe died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany during the Holocaust, including the famous diarist Anne Frank. As we mark the 75th anniversary of its liberation, historian Jens-Christian Wagner reveals what life was like there…
Bonnie Prince Charlie's rebellion of 1745 may have been short-lived and ultimately unsuccessful, but the exiled Stuart prince remains a Scottish hero. Here, writing for BBC History Revealed magazine, Jonny Wilkes explores why the Jacobite rising, which culimated in the battle of Culloden in 1746, failed...
Women, according to Phyllis Schlafly in the 1970s, did not really want equality with men – rather, they wanted the right to stay home and be homemakers. Here, historian Kimberly A Hamlin explores the questions at the core of Mrs. America, a new TV drama that revisits the 1970s fight to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (and Schlafly's fierce opposition to it)...
Inside our May 2020 issue: Matthew Lewis on whether Stephen and Matilda's 12th-century fight for the crown deserves its bloody reputation; Stephen Bates examines the Corn Law crisis; and Catherine Rider explores the medieval church's bid to stop its parishioners dabbling in spells and charms. Plus, a special VE Day supplement and much more…
In our latest podcasts: Emily Brand charts the dramatic lives of a Georgian aristocratic family whose lives were blighted by scandal; historian and author Linda Porter explores the lives of the many women who shared Charles II's bed; and Henry Hemming discusses the real personalities who author Ian Fleming drew on to create characters in the Bond novels...
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