BBC History

BBC History magazine has been published for the best part of two years now. As you might expect from Auntie, the magazine is a slick, well-researched journal for anyone with even a passing interest in history. Many of its longer features tie in with tv programmes running that month, for example, an interview with Simon Schama tied in with the broadcast of A History of Britain. There are however many other features that tie in with anniversaries or new museum exhibitions and so on. The articles vary in length from a few paragraphs to 6-7 pages but are always easily digestible and accessible. They are written intelligently with a leaning towards the average ...

I have been subscribing to the new BBC History Magazine now for four months and I must say that I think it is a good read. The magazine is a digest of articles related to history. In the four months that I have been reading it the subjects have ranged through various periods of history. What seems particularly good is that the magazine seems to be trying to redress the balance when it comes to the role of women in history. Each month there appears to be some article which points out an aspect of their contribution that has been "forgotten". For instance, did you know that there were women on board at least some of the British "Men of ...

I caught BBC History Magazine at number four, principally because my five year old son rushed headlong for it in Tesco’s. He waved it under my nose as one of those ‘must have’ items and my heart sank. He wanted to buy it instead of my preferred Bob The Builder or Tweenies as it had pictures of soldiers on the front. Now I’m used to the idiosyncracies of his magazine choices, we have previously bought Railway Modeller during his transport phase and more recently Military Illustrated for his current obsession. I will give Conor his due – he pores over these far more than he would those magazines designed especially for him – ...