In der aktuellen Ausgabe von BBC History Magazine

• WELCOME
  MAY 2025
• ANNIVERSARIES
  DANNY BIRD highlights events that took place in May in history
• “Trump’s tariffs are dramatic only if you have a short historical memory”
  Tariffs and trade wars have hit the headlines in recent months as US president Donald Trump pursues aggressive economic policies. But are they really so unprecedented? FRANK TRENTMANN spoke to Matt Elton about centuries of ‘discriminatory taxes’
• MICHAEL WOOD ON…
  A TREASURE TROVE OF MEDIEVAL DOCUMENTS
• HIDDEN HISTORIES
  KAVITA PURI on the urgent need to commemorate historical famines
• We sang, we danced and we all held hands”
  It’s 80 years since Britain erupted in joy at the news that the war in Europe was over. But how did those who lived through VE Day remember it? With the help of the BBC WW2 People’s War archive, John Willis reveals a day of partying, remembrance and continuing sacrifice
• THIS MONTH’S TOP PODCAST PICKS
  Listen ad-free at historyextra.com/podcast or with ads wherever you get your podcasts
• SCOTLAND’S SEASON OF THE WITCH
  In 16th and 17th-century Scotland, many hundreds of ‘witches’ were put to death – 10 times the proportion executed in England. Martha McGill asks what drove the killings
• Q&A
  A selection of historical conundrums answered by experts
• A timeless Love Story?
  Abélard and Héloïse’s passionate affair in 12th-century Paris captured imaginations in France and far beyond. Yet, writes Yvonne Seale, there was a dark side to this true-life tale of forbidden love
• It was the shot heard around the world… But who fired it?
  It’s 250 years since British troops clashed with American colonists at Lexington and Concord. George Goodwin reveals how one fateful day triggered the American Revolutionary War - and sparked a ferocious race to blame the other side
• TIMELINE THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION
  How tensions between Britain and its American colonies descended into conflict
• Egypt’s grape expectations
  To the ancient Egyptians, wine played a pivotal part in mythology, ritual and the natural processes that enabled their survival. Islam Issa explores six key roles it fulfilled in their society over the millennia
• “She said: ‘If you represent Pinochet in this case, I will divorce you’”
  PHILIPPE SANDS tells Rob Attar about his involvement in the sensational trial of the Chilean dictator, and how it connects to a Nazi on the run
• Fire from the sky
  AARON WILLIAM MOORE is impressed by a considered and inclusive account of the US bombing of Japanese civilians during the Second World War
• Japan’s desolation and atonement
  Content producer Danny Bird picks three podcast episodes about Japan’s war experiences
• Stream of consciousness
  GOJKO BARJAMOVIC is swept along on a journey into the distant past that inspires questions about how our forebears viewed their place in the human story
• War of words
  US efforts to spread democratic ideals through smuggled books make a gripping yarn, says RICHARD J ALDRICH
• THE CLASSIC BOOK
  Adriane Lentz-Smith on a novel look at a historic episode of racial injustice
• The other peasants’s revolt
  MARK STOYLE is impressed by a new account of a violent uprising that destroyed castles, monasteries and thousands of lives in 16th-century Germany
• GAMES / Atomic explorer
  JAMES OSBORNE navigates the perils of Cold War Britain in an alternative history imagining a catastrophic outcome to the Windscale nuclear disaster
• The original macaroni cheese
  ELEANOR BARNETT cooks a comfort dish that has become a modern staple but which was first recorded in the 18th century
• A model of innovation
  A workers’ village boasting light-filled houses and green parks set a new standard for urban planning in the 19th century. CONNIE ROUT takes a tour of Sir Titus Salt’s trailblazing industrial-age project
• Robert FitzRoy 1805-65
  Broadcaster Michael Buerk chooses