BBC History Magazine

Here are the feature articles in the January 2021 issue of BBC History Magazine, available free through public library subscriptions to Press Reader in Canada. 

Europe’s greatest martyr
Emily Guerry explores the cult that grew around Thomas Becket after his savage murder

Killers in the house of God
Kenneth F Duggan on the criminals who sought sanctuary in churches

An amazing life
Clare Mulley profiles the Nigerian jazzman who fought the Nazis

Miracle cures
Gareth Williams delves into four of history's most remarkable vaccines

South Asians in Britain
Kavita Puri on the experiences of British South Asians in the 'golden' nineties

D-Day dress rehearsal
James Holland mounts a defence of the maligned Allied invasion of Sicily

Bonnie Prince Charlie
Superhero or coward? Jacqueline Riding finds the man behind the myth

Britain’s Irish roots
Fergal Keane charts the influence Ireland historically wielded over Britain.

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From the latest History Extra email comes the article, originally published in the August 2020 edition of BBC History Magazine, Living in fear: the dangers of Victorian London . It includes items on: The garrotting panic of 1862; The pig-faced woman of Manchester Square; Haunted to death at Berkeley Square; Spring-Heeled Jack’s reign of terror.