BBC History UK - April 2023

In this issue

The Mongols
How brutal was life in their medieval empire?

The infamous bushranger
Meg Foster tells the amazing story of “Black Douglas”: hard drinker, bandit, prize-fighter and reader of skulls.

Life under the Mongols
Nicholas Morton considers how the world changed for the peoples living in the empire of the khans..

GEORGE VI'S NAZI DILEMMA

As war raged across the globe, the king had to confront admirers of Adolf Hitler uncomfortably close to home

8 mins

Hot cockles, handball and hide-and-seek

Nicholas Orme highlights some of the most popular children's pastimes in Tudor England - from ball games to blind man's buff - and explores their place in wider society

8 mins

"Come and assist your loving mother. I am in prison for debt". "Dear mother, so am I"

Debtors' prisons inflicted untold misery on families in the 18th and 19th centuries.

10+ mins

William Douglas: The infamous bushranger

Hard drinker, bandit, prize-fighter and reader of skulls. MEG FOSTER unravels the myth of \"Black Douglas\", whose life of crime across 19th-century Australia made him a target of lynch mobs and the popular press

7 mins

"Before my children shall be taken, I will kill every one of them"

The BBC series Lady Killers investigates historical murders perpetrated by women.

10 mins

AT THE MERCY OF THE MONGOLS

They pulled off one of the most astonishing campaigns of conquest in history. But how did they treat their subject populations once the dust had settled?

9 mins

The first families of the second city

The story of modern Birmingham is dominated by two clans, whose radical views and fierce commitment to public service forged its distinctive identity.

9 mins

"Climate is a factor that underpins all of human history"

Peter Frankopan talks to Rhiannon Davies about his pioneering new book exploring how humanity's complex relationship with the natural world has altered over the millennia

10+ mins

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