June 2018

Articles from the June 2018 issue of BBC History Magazine

Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, illustrated sitting on a throne

Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians: the warrior queen who crushed the Vikings

Battle of Barnet: This lively, if inaccurate, 15th- century illustration of the shows a coronet- wearing Edward skewering Warwick with his lance

The battle of Barnet, 1471: the Wars of the Roses clash that killed the Kingmaker

The wrecked remains of an Allied glider that participated in Market Garden

Second World War

Why Operation Market Garden, the Allies’ battle for Arnhem, was a disaster in the planning

N Dubois de Chémant demonstrating his own, and a grotesque female patient's false teeth, to a prospective male patient with grossly disfigured teeth. (Wellcome Collection)

A bite-sized history of teeth

A Georgian painting depicting children leaving for school

The Georgian guide to perfect parenting

A 14th-century Flemish illustration depicting the burying of plague victims in coffins in Tournai in 1349. (Photo by Granger Historical Picture Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

Black Death: “Oh father, why have you abandoned me?”

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The beach at Lyme Regis, on the Jurassic Coast of Devon and Dorset, has attracted fossil hunters for centuries. (Getty Images)

Where history happened: Georgian fossil hunting . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Medieval buildings lining the Dijver canal in the centre of the Belgian city of Bruges. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Bruges, Belgium

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Freddie Mercury – born Farrokh Bulsara – on stage at Brondby Hallen, Denmark. (Photo by Jorgen Angel/Redferns/Getty Images)

My history hero: Aled Jones chooses Freddie Mercury (1946–91) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A painting depicting the battle of the White Mountain

Europe’s apocalypse: the Thirty Years’ War