On Sunday 4 October 1936, the East End of London was convulsed by street fighting. Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists had organised a march through the area – home to a multicultural ...
To celebrate BBC History Magazine’s 20th birthday in 2020, we asked 20 experts to nominate a historical enigma that they’d dearly love to see solved. Later, we released a series of podcasts that ...
Mary Wollstonecraft was a firebrand thinker of the late 18th century, whose writing proposed radical ideas about equality for all, and the fundamental rights of women. That life took Wollstonecraft ...
On the night of 26 September 1983, at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union’s early-warning missile detection technology sprang to life. It was the worst-case scenario: the United States, the ...