March 2015 cover

March 2015

Articles from the March 2015 issue of BBC History Magazine

A painting by Vincenzo Camuccini depicting the death of Julius Caesar in the Roman Senate. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

Roman

The death of Caesar: do we know the whole story?

A cartoon depicting the Duke of Wellington, who demands attention outside a house, while the Duke of Argyll, inside with Harriette Wilson, pretends not to recognise him.

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Georgian Britain: sex in high places. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Katherine Willoughby in an 18th-century engraving after a Hans Holbein the Younger portrait. In 1546 the prospect of her marrying England's ageing King Henry VIII was causing tongues to wag in diplomatic circles. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

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A seventh wife for Henry VIII? The story of Katherine Willoughby. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hadrian's Wall

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Welcome to Britannia: Roman Britain in AD 130. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Plovdiv's old town

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My favourite place: Plovdiv, Bulgaria

The front of Shakespeare's birthplace on Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon.

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History explorer: the young William Shakespeare. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Comic Sam Kinison

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My history hero: Sam Kinison (1953-92). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women wearing unrationed shoe soles during the war

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Dressed for war: fashions of the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

John Maynard Keynes

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Books interview with Richard Davenport-Hines: "The great lesson of John Maynard Keynes's life is generosity of spirit". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The tombs of King Henry II and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine in Fontevraud Abbey, France. (Dreamstime)

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The duchy of Aquitaine: an English ‘colony’ in deepest France. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.