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 ...
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 ...
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 ...