Inside the January 2024 issue of BBC History Magazine, on sale now...


Shakespeare’s world

Eight experts explore what the playwright’s works tell us about love, power, monarchy and death

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Labour’s leap to power

A century ago, Ramsay MacDonald became Labour’s first prime minister. Richard Toye charts his entry to, and rapid departure from, Downing Street


How Asterix rewrote ancient history

Eran Almagor shows how the plucky Gaulish warrior has shaped our understanding of the classical world


Radical lives of the Bloomsbury Group

Frances Spalding reveals how this influential London set transformed British culture in the early 20th century


The British Schindler Edward

Abel Smith tells the story of Nicholas Winton, who helped save hundreds of children from the Nazis


Victorian murder scandals

Rosalind Crone explores six killings that shine a light on women’s lives in the 19th century


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