March 2018

Articles from the March 2018 issue of BBC History Magazine

Harold Godwinson is proclaimed king of England in the Bayeux Tapestry. It may have been commissioned by a Norman but this magnificent artwork repeatedly acknowledges the English leader’s piety and courage. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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Why is Harold Godwinson a hero of the Bayeux Tapestry?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of the young Elizabeth I. (Photo by Art Collection 2/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Elizabeth I's personality: the unfathomable queen

Crowds protest in Tehran

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Opinion: is Iran a nation at war with itself?

Members of the Home Guard train racing pigeons as messengers in Blackburn, July 1940. Soon, carrier birds like this would be supplying vital intelligence on German arms factories and troop movements in occupied Europe. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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The pigeons’ war on Hitler. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Spring Offensive, 1918. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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Germany’s final gamble. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Sultanahmet district in Istanbul, Turkey, which is classified as World Heritage by UNESCO. (Photo by DOZIER Marc via Getty Images)

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A new civilisation rises. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Benjamin Tillett, organiser of the Docker's Union and leader of the London Transport Worker's strike in 1911, addressing a rally of the strikers. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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The essay: Britain’s cautious revolutionaries. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An engraving from Ulrich Molitor’s ‘On witches and female soothsayers’, depicting witches bringing down the rain. Germany, 15th century. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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A spell-binding history of witches. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Radio Times cover, 1931. (Photo by Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Radio nation

Winston Churchill, 1941. (Photo by War Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

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History heroBarbara Taylor Bradford chooses Winston Churchill (1874–1965). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Wendy Webster. (Photo by Claire Wood/BBC)

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Books interview with Wendy Webster: “In its finest hour, Britain’s population was multiethnic and multinational”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.