April 2016 Cover

April 2016

Articles from the April 2016 issue of BBC History Magazine

Londoners flee the city during the earthquake panic of April 1750. (Getty Images)

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The earthquakes that rocked Georgian London (plus three more seismic events that shaped history). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Edmund II - better known as Edmund Ironside - shown in a 14th-century manuscript. (Photo by Wikimedia Commons)

Anglo-Saxon

Edmund Ironside: Anglo-Saxon warrior king

The Valletta skyline – in the centre is St Paul's Anglican Cathedral and Carmelite Church. (Photo by Getty Images)

20th Century

My favourite place: Malta

A marble bust of the Emperor Hadrian who ruled from AD 117 to 138

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Hadrian's travels. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of five marble busts of typical early Roman citizens. The empire expanded by absorbing the peoples it defeated, giving rights and obligations to former outsiders. (Photo by Gjon Mili/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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Mary Beard on why Rome ruled the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Catherine Howard. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Catherine Howard: The death of innocence. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Queen Elizabeth I painted by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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How Shakespeare rewrote history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Guillaume Apollinaire and his wife, Jacqueline Kolb, on the terrace of the boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris, France, in 1918. (Photo by adoc-photos/Corbis via Getty Images)

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My history hero: Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Charles II entering London in May 1660 following the restoration of the monarchy. (Photo by Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

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Clare Jackson"Charles II had to appeal to public opinion more than his predecessors did". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The ruins of Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire. Henry’s motives when dismantling such monasteries “were much more complex than pure revenge or pure avarice alone”, says Adam Morton. (Photo by Getty Images)

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History explorer6 places to explore the dissolution of the monasteries. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.