In der aktuellen Ausgabe von BBC History Magazine

• ANNIVERSARIES
  DANNY BIRD highlights events that took place in June in history
• "Which historical figures will capture the imagination of a class on a rainy Thursday afternoon?"
  History teacher and writer SHALINA PATEL discusses how to make the subject appealing and relevant to a diverse range of students today - and envisages what lessons might look like in 25 years’ time
• "A reader wrote in and said ’That’s my mum!’"
  BBC History Magazine is 25 years old. To mark that milestone, 13 members of the team, past and present, selected the front cover from the past quarter of a century that resonates with them most
• MICHAEL WOOD ON…
  PAUL KLEE’S ANGEL OF HISTORY
• HIDDEN HISTORIES
  KAVITA PURI on long-neglected stories revealed in Rio de Janeiro
• Rome’s worst nightmare
  When the Spartacus revolt erupted in 73 BC, it exposed a terrifying truth: that the cocksure Roman Republic was nowhere near as invincible as it liked to believe. Guy de la Bédoyère takes up the story
• A slave to the truth?
  How accurate is Kubrick’s 1960 blockbuster, Spartacus?
• "These women transformed his understanding of the world"
  Malcolm X became one of the most influential leaders in the US civil rights movement - thanks largely, explains Ashley D Farmer, to the women who shaped his life and ideas
• TIMELINE BECOMING X
  10 key milestones in the life of the influential US black nationalist
• Q&A
  A selection of historical conundrums answered by experts
• Spiked drinks, counterfeit coins and the lodgers from hell
  Drugging, fraud, even murder-women couldn’t really commit such heinous crimes, could they? Rosalind Crone explores five audacious female-led felonies from the 18th and 19th centuries
• Painting on the precipice
  Hans Holbein’s masterwork The Ambassadors is an exquisite portrait of two 16th-century diplomats. But it is also crammed with symbols and hidden messages. Tracy Borman deciphers the clues that betray the turbulence of a fateful year
• 25 things we’ve learned over the past 25 years
  To celebrate a quarter-century of BBC History Magazine, we asked 25 expert contributors to nominate the most important historical discoveries and revelations since the publication launched in 2000
• Flower power
  Few 17th-century women could travel the world. But the world could visit them in their gardens. Susannah Lyon-Whaley reveals how exotic plants - from Chinese rhubarb to South American passionfruit - opened new horizons in fashion, food and science
• ”Africans have been starved of historical figures from their own lands that they can look up to”
  PAULA AKPAN speaks to Danny Bird about powerful African woman leaders and the complexities of interrogating historical narratives, colonial biases and these women’s own flaws
• Who says what and why they say it
  DAVID RUNCIMAN is impressed by an exploration of how arguments over free speech are often rooted in a desire to close down dialogue
• She’s the boss
  Emily Maguire discusses Rapture, her novel about the legend of a female pope
• A doctrine of self-control
  FERN RIDDELL gives a cautious welcome to an exploration of American attitudes down the years towards both sex work and female sex workers
• Diplomatic mission
  RICHARD TOYE salutes an exploration of the relationship between the ’Big Three’ Allied leaders
• THE CLASSIC BOOK
  Katja Hoyer recalls how Iron Kingdom showed her a new way to write history
• The feel of truth
  JOSEPH USCINSKI enjoys an account of a fake report that supposedly exposed a huge conspiracy to wage war in support of the American economy
• GAMES / Battling through turmoil
  JAMES OSBORNE dives into a turbulent and transformative period of Japanese history on a mission involving a black samurai and a shady spy-warrior
• Buenos Aires in five places
  The city on the River Plate estuary is a colourful cultural melting pot, blending influences from successive waves of immigration. JASON WILSON picks five key historical sites to visit
• Harry Price 1881-1948
  Writer and broadcaster Danny Robins chooses