April 2024

Expert articles from the April 2024 issue of BBC History Magazine

Emily Anderson. (Illustration by Cat O’Neil)

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Amazing livesEmily Anderson: the secret life of Britain's most senior female wartime codebreaker. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jason Okundaye (Photo by Damien McFadden)

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Jason Okundaye on the Black gay community and its tensions: “The movement has always been a broad church”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Part of a 19th-century letter (Photo by whitemay/Getty)

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Agony and adventure: the hidden histories inside women's diaries. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Alan Bates (played by Toby Jones) in the TV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office (Photo by ITV Plc)

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The Post Office scandal: the history behind the British institution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British author Sathnam Sanghera poses for a photograph in Hampstead

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Sathnam Sanghera on the legacy of empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Lord Byron: 9 objects that defined the infamous poet's life and story. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A statue of Thutmosis III

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Ancient armageddon: the battle of Megiddo that led to the rise of a great warrior-pharaoh. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Is the Eastern Front the forgotten theatre of World War One?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A horse ambulance in the 19th century, and (inset, above) an advert for an RSPCA fund for horses. The number of beasts of burden working in cities rose rapidly in the Victorian era. (Photo by Alamy)

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Beastly Victorians: the 19th-century fight for animal rights. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history heroAnthony Horowitz chooses Colin Gubbins. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth I

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"Elizabeth was certainly no feminist": Tracy Borman on the Elizabethans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.