In der aktuellen Ausgabe von BBC History Magazine

• ANNIVERSARIES
  DANNY BIRD highlights events that took place in April in history
• “Across history, intellectual life repeatedly becomes suspect when societies fracture”
  A mistrust of ‘experts’ and ‘intellectuals’ has recently crystallised into US government interventions targeting academic institutions. EMILY KNOX and JOAN SCOTT share their thoughts with Danny Bird about the troubling history of anti-intellectualism
• WHAT WE'VE LEARNED THIS MONTH
  JAMES OSBORNE highlights four insights shared by experts on our HistoryExtra podcasts
• England's mistress
  Nell Gwyn became famous for her love affair with Charles II, and for her love of drinking, gambling and carousing. Yet, writes Sophie Shorland, this upwardly mobile celebrity was also a canny political operator who wielded substantial power in court
• THE COMMON TOUCH
  How an actress became the toast of the nation
• Purging Stalin
  Seventy years ago, Nikita Khrushchev stood before a packed hall in central Moscow and delivered a four-hour denunciation of Josef Stalin, one that exposed mass terror and attempted to reclaim the legacy of Leninism. So what drove this extraordinarily radical move? And did the Soviet people buy Khrushchev's message?
• What was the most important invention in history?
  Our team of historians, broadcasters and authors name the discoveries that have transformed our world over the centuries
• ROME'S PEOPLE POWER
  From Romulus's open-city policy to Claudius's reforms, citizenship was used by Rome as both a reward and a weapon. And, as Shushma Malik explains, it enabled the burgeoning empire to build power and define identity
• How medieval mothers took back control
  In the Middle Ages, the bearing and raising of children defined women's lives. But as Elinor Cleghorn explains, there were women who had other ideas and boldly challenged attitudes towards motherhood
• Q&A
  A selection of historical conundrums answered by experts
• BLOOD AND PLUNDER
  It's a tale of slavery, racism and naked imperial power. Barnaby Phillips traces the fate of the exquisite golden treasures looted by British forces from the kingdom of Asante 150 years ago
• “What we have here embodies the soul of Asante”
  The return of 32 pieces of gold regalia in 2024 sparked joy – and anger – among the Asante people, writes Barnaby Phillips
• THE FACE FIXATION
  From a Stone Age Venus and an Egyptian death mask to an unflinchingly challenging 21st-century sculpture, Fay Bound-Alberti introduces seven depictions of the face that track humanity's ever-evolving relationship with creativity, hierarchy and self-image
• “To portray Rasputin as a figure of pure evil is as misleading as depicting him solely as a holy man”
  DANNY BIRD speaks to Antony Beevor about the extraordinary influence the mystic Rasputin had on the imperial Romanov family and the role he played in its ultimate demise
• A dictator's demise
  RICHARD J EVANS is impressed by a meticulously researched study of the Führer's suicide and of the narratives woven around it by allies and enemies
• The Führer's fall
  Content producer Charlotte Vosper picks episodes of our podcast about Hitler's final years
• Dead reckoning
  CANDIDA MOSS is invigorated by a scholarly exploration of ideas about sacrifice over the millennia, from early Christianity to the modern world
• Reluctant guests
  NIGEL JONES enjoys literary flourishes in a book about refugees in France during and after the Second World War, but is concerned by factual errors and imagined details
• Sex in the city
  A study of the understanding and treatment of sexually transmitted disease fascinates JENNIFER EVANS
• Inheritance of loss
  Nelio Biedermann discusses his Hungarian family saga of privilege, oppression and exile
• GAMES / Feudal attraction
  JAMES OSBORNE finds Manor Lords is still a richly detailed, historically grounded medieval sim where every burgage plot, harvest and levy counts
• Ancient Egyptian omelette
  ELEANOR BARNETT whips up an eggah - a tasty dish that continues to be enjoyed in Egypt to this day
• A manmade paradise
  In the 19th century, James Garth Marshall created a picture-perfect lake above Coniston Water. CHRISTOPHER DONALDSON explores how Marshall - and Beatrix Potter - shaped this Lake District landscape
• Tunis in five places
  The Tunisian capital has a long, tumultuous history. EVE MACDONALD picks a quintet of historic spots that speak to its storied past
• Claude Auchinleck 1884-1981
  Broadcaster Mishal Husain chooses