April 2023

Expert articles from the April 2023 issue of BBC History Magazine

Joseph Chamberlain (far right) pictured with his sons Neville (far left) and Austen, daughter Hilda (front left) and third wife, Mary Endicott (Photo by Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Chamberlain and Cadbury of BirminghamThe first families in Britain’s second city. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 1577 portrait of Arbella Stuart, great- great-granddaughter of Henry VII, as a toddler clutching a doll

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What were the games and pastimes enjoyed by Tudor children?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Genghis Khan’s tent, as shown in a 14th-century Persian miniature. The Mongols’ conquests transformed the way the people of Eurasia did trade, shared knowledge, paid taxes and fought wars (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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What was life like under the Mongol empire?

Illustration by Rose Wilkinson

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William Douglas: infamous bushranger, prize-fighter and reader of skulls. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The debtors’ exercise grounds at Newgate prison in 1809. The debtors’ prison was a feature of everyday life in 18th-century England (Photo by Rischgitz/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Inside debtors’ prisons: what life was like for people jailed in Georgian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Charles III, whose coronation on 6 May “will be significant for the kind of king that emerges”, says Alice Hunt (Photo by Hannah McKay / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

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CoronationsThe soft power of royal pomp and pageantry. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

George VI and Elizabeth, the queen consort, talking to men clearing the debris of a bomb site in London, September 1940 (Photo by Topical Press/Getty Images)

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King George VI's Nazi dilemma: the men in the royal household who admired Hitler. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Burke and Hare

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Burke and HareLisa Rosner on the pair's crime spree. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A protester wearing a star badge at an anti-vaccination rally in Cardiff, 2021. The badge’s design deliberately evokes the star Jewish people were forced to wear in Nazi-occupied territories during the Second World War.

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“Many, if not most, Nazi analogies are historically inaccurate”: Richard J Evans on the trouble with comparisons. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history heroMichelle Gayle chooses James Baldwin. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.