January 2017 cover

January 2017

Articles from the January 2017 issue of BBC History Magazine

Margaret Beaufort, shown in a c16th‐century oil on panel painting

Medieval

Margaret Beaufort: mother of the Tudors

Aerial view of the outside of Treblinka extermination camp, Germany, 1943. (Photo by Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

Second World War

Laurence Rees on the perpetrators of the Holocaust: “What they told us was, at the time, they felt it was the right thing to do”

Deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, German officer Paul Schmidt and Adolf Hitler survey damage at Hitler's eastern front military headquarters, ‘the Wolf’s Lair’, hours after a failed bombing attempt by Lieutenant Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. (Photo by Heinrich Hoffmann/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Second World War

Should we be glad the 1944 July Plot to kill Hitler failed?

Portrait of William III of Orange, found in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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How glorious was the Glorious Revolution?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Painting of Masons building a pillar in a church

General Early Modern

Your guide to...the Freemasons

Fidel Castro addresses delegates of the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York, September 1960. (Photo by Tommy Weber/AFP/Getty Images)

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How should history remember Fidel Castro?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Giuseppe Garibaldi in Naples, Italy, 1861. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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God, gangs and Garibaldi. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Vintage family photo album and documents. (Getty Images)

20th Century

How to become a local historian

View of Algiers with mediterranean galleys, published in Johannes van Keulen's Dutch Atlas, 1709. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Stuart

When Britons were slaves in Africa

The Temple Church, London, a late 12th-century church built for and by the Knights Templar. (Photo by LatitudeStock - David Williams/Getty Images)

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History explorer: The Knights Templar. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Wrought iron lace adorns many old buildings and houses in the streets of New Orleans. (Getty Images)

20th Century

My favourite place: New Orleans, Louisiana

Section of the Bayeux Tapestry depicting a woman and child fleeing from a burning house. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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The Anglo-Saxons’ last stand. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.