In der aktuellen Ausgabe von BBC History Magazine

• ANNIVERSARIES
  DANNY BIRD highlights events that took place in June in history
• “OJ Simpson’s celebrity meant that people were captivated by this story”
  Following OJ Simpson’s death in April, JOE STREET spoke to Matt Elton about the 1995 murder trial that grabbed the attention of audiences around the world and what the crime and its aftermath tell us about recent US history
• MICHAEL WOOD ON…
  A CELEBRATION OF BRITISH FEMINISM
• HIDDEN HISTORIES
  KAVITA PURI on a murder that sparked a youth movement
• NORMANDY’S FORGOTTEN HEROES
  Ferrying troops to the beaches wasn’t the only contribution sailors made during the Allied invasion of Normandy. In the first of two special features marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day, NICK HEWITT reveals how the Allied navies ended up fighting one of the most overlooked campaigns of the Second World War
• TIMELINE
  How the Allied navies turned the tide in Normandy
• NORMANDY IN NUMBERS
  Key statistics from the Allied naval campaign
• The spearhead of the invasion
  Hours before the assault on Normandy’s beaches got under way, British airborne troops launched an attack on targets in the French countryside. At stake, writes Saul David, was the success of the entire D-Day landings
• TAKING THE FIGHT TO FORTRESS EUROPE
  Five more British airborne operations that shaped the course of the Second World War
• Q&A
  A selection of historical conundrums answered by experts
• How the Vikings viewed the world
  Old Norse poetry isn’t just a rip-roaring account of the exploits of gods and giants. It’s also an indispensable portal into how the Vikings understood the universe. Alicia Maddalena and Matthew Townend give us a whistle-stop tour of a glittering art form
• WISH YOU WERE HERE!
  They carved their names into statues of pharaohs and took cruises down the Nile. Mary Beard describes what happened when a party of elite Roman holidaymakers — led by the emperor Hadrian — descended on ancient Egypt’s tourist hotspots in AD 130
• Banished. Exiled. Died… Widowed. Berated. Survived.
  The ladies-in-waiting to Henry VIII’s wives were serious political operators with unparalleled access to the royal inner sanctum. Nicola Clark reveals how six of the most influential navigated the vipers’ nest that was the Tudor court
• “Manliness and womanliness belong to man and woman alike”
  As the Victorian age neared its end, a vibrant cultural movement emerged that flipped conventional notions of femininity and masculinity on their head. Jad Adams reveals how a new generation challenged stereotypical gender identities
• WHEN WILLIAM BECAME FIONA
  The Scottish author who made a name writing as a woman
• “Ancient Egypt survived because of the wise rulership of the Cleopatras”
  LLOYD LLEWELLYN-JONES talks to Matt Elton about the seven queens who shared the name Cleopatra, and how they were able to shape the ancient world in their image
• Fear and loathing in Damascus
  RYAN GINGERAS praises an unsparing account of an outbreak of sectarian bloodletting that shaped the evolution of the modern Middle East
• Sailing the high seas
  Francesca de Tores (pictured) discusses Saltblood, her novel drawing on the real life of English pirate Mary Read
• Dramatic tales
  EMILY BRAND is gripped by a sweeping account of a trial that inspired England’s first professional female writer, Aphra Behn
• Longing for the past
  HANNAH SKODA finds depth and nuance in this timely cultural history of nostalgia, tracing it from the 17th century, when the word was coined, up to the present day
• “I’m trying to tell a bit of the history of the Caribbean through my own family’s eyes”
  BBC broadcaster CLIVE MYRIE tells us about his new travelogue, which takes in Cuba, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic and Barbados
• THIS MONTH’S TOP PODCAST PICKS
  Listen ad-free at historyextra.com/podcast or with ads wherever you get your podcasts
• A world of its own
  Orkney is often described as ’remote’ but that’s all a question of perspective, says PETER MARSHALL. This beautiful archipelago has an extraordinary, well-preserved Neolithic heritage and was once central to a Norse earldom
• Granada in five places
  The last great Moorish capital of Al-Andalus became a Spanish imperial powerhouse. ELIZABETH DRAYSON picks five hidden gems of the Andalusian city
• Eglantyne Jebb 1876-1928
  Broadcaster Natasha Kaplinsky chooses