October 2020

Expert history articles from the October 2020 issue of BBC History Magazine

A missionary preaches to the Native Americans of Massachusetts, c1650. By now, colonists were imposing their values on the indigenous population, encouraging them to dress like the English – and worship the English God. (Photo by Ian Tyas/Keystone/Getty Images)

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Britain's nuclear fearsHow has the UK prepared for Armageddon?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This 15th-century painting from a manuscript shows men fishing in a river. In medieval England, eels were both meals and de facto currency. (Photo by Bridgeman)

Medieval

Fishing for gold: how eels powered the medieval economy

Robert Rinder (right) in My Family, The Holocaust and Me

20th Century

Growing up in the dark shadow of trauma: Robert Rinder on the legacy of Holocaust

Anne Boleyn

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Anne Boleyn’s final battle: Tracy Borman reveals Henry VIII's final 'kindness'. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The ‘Pilgrims’ stride onto American soil in 1620 after crossing the Atlantic on the Mayflower, as shown in a 20th-century painting. The colony that they established was – initially, at least – a genuinely enlightened place, writes James Evans. (Photo by Harold M. Lambert/Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

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Myth of the Mayflower: the voyage that made America?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Young girl putting garland around Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. (Photo by Dinodia Photos/Getty Images)

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History heroFergal Keane chooses Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Writer and Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson at her home in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Alamy)

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Isabel Wilkerson: “Caste is like the wind. You may not be able to see it, but it’s a quietly destructive force”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

If you’re interested in learning about history at home, there are plenty of short courses available online on a variety of topics. (Photo by Getty Images)

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How to become a history student at home. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Covid-19 saw the UK’s universities, such as the University of Glasgow (above), cancel in-person teaching. The logistics of teaching and studying during the pandemic are proving complex. (Photo by Dreamstime)

21st Century

How Covid-19 is forcing universities to change

Hiring more black academics “to teach all sorts of histories” is key to instigating real change in university history education, lecturer Charlotte Lydia Riley argues. (Photo by Shutterstock)

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How can we improve diversity within history education?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Empire builder Maharajah Ranjit Singh sits astride a horse as an attendant holds a parasol over him. Singh is historically credited with growing his ancestral warrior-clan, the Sukerchakia misl, into a grand imperial dynasty. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

Victorian

A Sikh tragedy: the Indian kingdom that fell foul of the British empire

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The African who transformed Anglo-Saxon England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.