June 2022

Expert history articles from the June 2022 issue of BBC History Magazine

A 19th-century painting of Oliver Cromwell and the New Model Army storming Basing House in 1645 (Photo by Artepics/Alamy Stock Photo)

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The siege of Basing House: how the Civil War was won. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Afghan fighters on top of a destroyed Soviet helicopter, 1980 (Photo by Alain Dejean/Sygma via Getty Images)

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War without end: conflict in Afghanistan, from the Cold War Soviet invasion to the Taliban. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Composer and conductor Igor Stravinsky rehearses with the BBC Symphony Orchestra ahead of a concert to be broadcast on the Third Programme, 1958

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BBC at 100The Third Programme: a cultural institution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jackie Weaver and Elizabeth I

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History heroJackie Weaver chooses Elizabeth I. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mowgli is surrounded by wolves in a 1937 illustration from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book

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Raised by wolves: the history of feral children

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Lucy Worsley on three extraordinary livesThe survivor, the 'incurable' and the scapegoat. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.