January 2022

Expert history articles from the January 2022 issue of BBC History Magazine

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Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert and Edward Jenner

My history hero Dame Sarah Gilbert chooses Edward Jenner . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Statue of William Wallace in Aberdeen

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Enemies of the state 10 high-profile treason cases

Emily Soldene, actress, writer and rebel

Emily Soldene: actress, writer, rebel

BBC employees at work in the control room at the new home at Broadcasting House (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

BBC at 100 Broadcasting House: a new home for the BBC

Queen Victoria in 1861

Queen of spies? Inside Queen Victoria’s secret intelligence network

Illustration of King Louis IX.

A king of fire and light: Louis IX’s tangled legacy

British army soldiers face off against a group of Irish civilians

Why we should remember… Bloody Sunday

School photo showing rows of children from a Manchester school

Did Britain really roar in the 1920s?

A group of BBC staff surround a large piece of broadcasting equipment

BBC at 100 The BBC begins: how a group of radio pioneers launched one of Britain’s most famous institutions

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HEX_Voices_Michael Wood

Michael Wood on the Parthenon Sculptures "The case is unique: the sculptures are bound up with Greek identity" . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.