BBC History UK
A global revolution
John Harris is impressed by a wide-ranging and clear-eyed work exploring the mechanisms of the slave trade and its enduring legacy in shaping the modern world order
2 min |
July 2022
BBC History UK
'This was a time when losing a limb made you a hero, but losing a face made you a monster'
Lindsey Fitzharris talks to Rhiannon Davies about her book on a pioneering plastic surgeon who rebuilt men's shattered faces during the First World War
10+ min |
July 2022
BBC History Magazine
WAR WITHOUT END
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 is widely viewed through the prism of the great Cold War confrontation between east and west. Yet, writes Elisabeth Leake, the occupation also ignited a tinderbox of local grievances that continue to torment the country to this day
10+ min |
June 2022
BBC History Magazine
When the Black Death arrived in Europe, it was like striking a match in tinder
The medievalist and historian of medicine Monica H Green tells Ellie Cawthorne how scientific advances have changed our thinking on what caused the Black Death - and why it was so devastating
10+ min |
June 2022
BBC History Magazine
The survivor, the "incurable" and the scapegoat
History is too often presented as tales of "great men" - yet the experiences of ordinary women speak eloquently about the reality of lives past. Lucy Worsley introduces three outwardly unremarkable people caught up in pivotal events
9 min |
June 2022
BBC History Magazine
THE SIEGE
When some 6,000 parliamentarians tried to prise a few hundred royalists out of Basing House in 1643, they began a brutal siege that would drag on for years - and see thousands slaughtered. Jessie Childs tells the story of a desperate struggle that became a defining episode of the Civil War
10+ min |
June 2022
BBC History Magazine
The strike has links to a far longer story of female south Asian protest
KAVITA PURI explores lesser-known stories from our past
3 min |
June 2022
All About Space
SOLVING THE SUN'S BURNING MYSTERY
Scientists have spent decades trying to figure out why the Sun's atmosphere heats to extreme temperatures
7 min |
Issue 130
All About Space
COMETS FADE NEAR SATURN'S ORBIT
It's not just about the Sun's heat
3 min |
Issue 130
All About Space
OUR SATELLITE'S STARS SHED LIGHT ON GALAXY FORMATION
Mapping of the Large Magellanic Cloud reveals starry secrets
2 min |
Issue 130
All About Space
ASTEROID IMPACT UNLIKELY UNTIL 2880
Earthlings can breathe a little easier for the next 800 years
3 min |
Issue 130
All About Space
HUBBLE SPOTS ITS MOST DISTANT STAR YET
Meet Earendel, a star whose light took 12.8 billion years to reach Earth
4 min |
Issue 130
All About Space
MOON PROFILE TITAN
Saturn's biggest moon is a harsh, uninhabitable world, yet has uncanny similarities to our home planet
4 min |
Issue 130
All About Space
BEYOND THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Five of NASA's spacecraft are heading beyond our solar neighbourhood. What will they find?
6 min |
Issue 130
All About Space
CONQUERING SPACE JUNK
Should we be worried about the debris we're leaving in orbit?
5 min |
Issue 130
All About Space
ARE WE IN A CHAOTIC UNIVERSE?
Do we finally have a handle on chaos theory and how it influences the world around us?
9 min |
Issue 130
All About Space
André Kuipers "Everybody in the space world was watching"
The only Dutch astronaut to fly into space twice, Kuipers also berthed a private spacecraft with the ISS for the first time
6 min |
Issue 130
BBC History Magazine
Grave insights
BRENNA HASSETT recommends an account of life and individual deaths - in Britain during the first millennium AD
4 min |
June 2022
BBC History Magazine
Raised by wolves
Feral children have fascinated and frightened people for centuries, raising questions about what it means to be human. Richard Sugg shares the stories of some of these wild children - and explains why their return to society was not always a happy one
8 min |
June 2022
BBC History Magazine
Medieval Christians were capable of imagining goddess-like beings that looked thoroughly pagan
RONALD HUTTON talks to Rhiannon Davies about his new book exploring four female deities who straddled the pagan and Christian worlds in the Middle Ages
10+ min |
June 2022
BBC History Magazine
The final slog
TAYLOR DOWNING salutes an account of the often overlooked last days of the Second World War in Europe, when Allied troops faced stubborn resistance from German forces
6 min |
June 2022
BBC History Magazine
Generating fear
STEPHEN WALKER gives a nervous welcome to a history of nuclear power, which focuses on the accidents and the disasters that have plagued the sector
3 min |
June 2022
BBC History Magazine
First letters
LANGUAGE
1 min |
June 2022
BBC History Magazine
A cultural institution
Mixing music with drama and the ancient with the cutting-edge, the BBC's Third Programme set out to scale the shining peaks of "high culture". But, says DAVID HENDY, its lofty aims alienated as much as they allured
9 min |
June 2022
BBC History Magazine
A congregation of voices
SARAH FOOT enjoys a new history of the Church of England, a book that finds space for the reflections of ordinary parishioners as well charting the deeds of the great and the good
3 min |
June 2022
BBC History Magazine
All at sea
Maritime
2 min |
June 2022
All About Space
EILEEN COLLINS: “IT WAS A DIFFICULT MISSION… WE WERE THE FIRST TO SEE MIR”
Having served as both the first female pilot and first female commander of NASA’s Space Shuttle, Eileen Collins boosted the involvement of women in space exploration to a whole new level
10 min |
Issue 129
All About Space
EUROPE'S MARS ROVER IS NOW UNLIKELY TO LAUNCH BEFORE 2026 AFTER RUSSIA'S WAR ON UKRAINE
Europe's beleaguered ExoMars rover is unlikely to launch before 2026 as the European Space Agency (ESA) ponders a path forward for the mission, including finding a new rocket, replacing Russian-built parts in cooperation with NASA or restarting its partnership with Russia in case the country's war in Ukraine ends soon.
1 min |
Issue 129
All About Space
WHERE HAVE THESE GIANT FILAMENTS COME FROM?
Mysterious magnetic filaments have been found at the heart of the Milky Way, but astronomers are still trying to discover their origin
10 min |
Issue 129
All About Space
25 UNBELIEVABLE FACTS ABOUT THE SOLAR SYSTEM
WHY OUR NEIGHBOURHOOD COULD BE THE STRANGEST PLACE IN THE COSMOS
10+ min |