In der aktuellen Ausgabe von BBC History Magazine

• ANNIVERSARIES
  DANNY BIRD highlights events that took place in May in history
• “It's rare that a television show actually changes people's lives”
  Since it first hit TV screens back in 2009, Horrible Histories has brought Terry Deary and Martin Brown's hugely successful series of books to an entire generation of children. As it marks its 15th anniversary, MATT ELTON speaks to three members of the team behind the show that mixes comedy songs, gruesome deaths and a talking rat
• MICHAEL WOOD ON…
  THE POWER OF DIALOGUE
• HIDDEN HISTORIES
  KAVITA PURI on the history of Anglo-Indian relations
• The empire's last hurrah?
  It featured exotic pavilions, sporting spectacles and even a replica of Tutankhamun's tomb. But, as Matthew Parker explains, when the British Empire Exhibition opened its doors in Wembley a century ago, it also spoke of a superpower in decline
• The forgotten kingdom
  William of Normandy sailed across the Channel and conquered England in 1066 – or at least that's how the story goes. Here, Sophie Thérèse Ambler and James Morris reveal how one northern stronghold remained untouched for another 26 years
• Beethoven's ode to peace
  From the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony has served as a symbol of hope and unity for 200 years. Bronwen Everill examines the piece's legacy through five key performances
• NO POPERY! HIS MAJESTY KING MOB! Vive La RépubLique!
  From expressions of religious rage to death threats against the king, Madeleine Pelling reveals how graffiti drove Britain's revolutionary 18th century
• FIVE THINGS YOU (PROBABLY) DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT… The history of witchcraft
  Marion Gibson, who is teaching our new HistoryExtra Academy course, shares five surprising facts about witch trials in the early modern era
• THE INVISIBLE ROMANS
  Rome's slaves were brutalised, mocked, exploited – or simply ignored. Yet, writes Guy de la Bédoyère, the Roman empire could hardly have functioned without the labours of this captive population
• Q&A
  A selection of historical conundrums answered by experts
• Sex, sadism and sugared death
  Rosalind Crone investigates eight scandals that shocked Victorian Britain, from a killer-sweet scare to an adultery trial that threatened to bring down the prime minister
• “It is absolutely important to look at African history through the lens of African people themselves”
  ZEINAB BADAWI talks to Danny Bird about her ambitious new book, which tells the story of the African continent and the civilisations that have shaped it
• Jesus's lucky break?
  ALEC RYRIE has some doubts about an entertaining new book that attributes the rise of ‘orthodox’ Christianity in the ancient world largely to chance
• France in technicolour
  CATHERINE HANLEY hails an exuberant account of the rise and fall of a mighty French dynasty
• Europe's taste for power
  JERRY BROTTON is unimpressed by an exploration of the 16th-century scramble for spices, the “first truly global commodity”
• Healers in the hell of the gulag
  ROBERT HORNSBY commends a book that gives voice to those who provided medical care to prisoners in the Soviet Union's brutal labour camp system
• “Understanding how China got here, and what its motivations are, requires looking at history”
  Writer and broadcaster MISHA GLENNY tells us about his new series on the forces and ideas that have shaped modern-day China
• A Cumbrian work of art
  Muncaster Castle was originally built to repel raiding Scots. Yet, writes ROB DAVID, this fortification earned its place in history for providing shelter from two very different foes: Yorkist armies and German bombers
• Warsaw in five places
  The ‘phoenix city’ has experienced might and destruction. ALEXANDRA RICHIE highlights five spots that reveal intriguing aspects of the Polish capital's history
• NEXT MONTH
  June issue on sale 9 May 2024
• Alfred Russel Wallace 1823-1913
  Naturalist, explorer and television presenter Steve Backshall chooses