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|History)| company = Immediate Media CompanyMay 2000}}| country = United Kingdom| website = {{official URL}}| issn = 1469-8552}}BBC History is a British magazine devoted to both British and world history, and aimed at readers of all levels of knowledge and interest. There are thirteen issues a year, one each month and a Christmas special. The magazine is published, under licence from the BBC, by the Immediate Media Company. BBC History is the biggest-selling history magazine in the UK.{{citation needed|date=October 2012}}The magazine contains topical features, often aligned with programmes being broadcast on BBC Radio or Television and written by academic historians, as well as historical analysis of news events and comparisons with similar previous events, reviews of new books and media, and features on significant locations in history.

History

BBC History was launched in May 2000 by BBC Magazines, with Greg Neale, an experienced journalist and history graduate, as editor. In February 2004 its parent company BBC Worldwide acquired Origin Publishing, which had published the rival Living History Magazine since April 2003. Living History Magazine was then incorporated into BBC History and its former editor Dave Musgrove, a journalist with a doctorate in medieval archaeology, became editor of BBC History. Following the merger the magazine increased its sales and subscriptions.In March 2010 BBC Historia was launched through a partnership with the Spanish publishers Ediciones Nobel.NEWS,weblink BBC History Magazine launches Spanish edition, 26 March 2010, 29 March 2010, In March 2011 the Hungarian edition, retaining the English title, was launched by the Hungarian publisher Kossuth Kiadó; it features articles by Hungarian historians in addition to items translated from English.WEB, 2022-05-27, Megszűnik a BBC History magazin magyar kiadása,weblink 2022-11-28, telex, hu, In August 2022, after a four-month hiatus, a different publisher, Kocsis Kiadó Zrt., managed by András Sándor Kocsis, formerly at Kossuth Kiadó, started to publish the magazine.WEB, 2022-08-25, Visszatért a BBC History magazin,weblink 2022-11-28, 24.hu, hu, A Greek edition was launched in December 2020.From 2001 through 2012, the main BBC website also included tie-materials, in the form of historical articles and topic summaries, at BBC.co.uk/historyWEB, History, 2001, BBC.co.uk, BBC History,weblink dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20011201104731weblink">weblink 1 December 2001, WEB, History, 2012, BBC.co.uk, BBC History,weblink dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120801014111weblink">weblink 1 August 2012, (which was later redirected to an index of BBC's historically themed television offerings).

In the news

In January 2006 the magazine's list of the "ten worst Britons" was widely reported, and in April 2006 its report of a poll in which the day Magna Carta was signed was chosen as a suitable day for a celebration of "Britishness" also attracted unusual attention, to the ire of some in Scotland.In August 2006 a feature on the "best British Prime Minister" hit the headlines. In 2008 some newspapers picked up on a piece by Dave Musgrove asking whether it might be time to have the Bayeux Tapestry brought over from France for an exhibition. In November 2009 the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4 reported on a story in the magazine about when history ends and current affairs begin.WEB,weblink BBC - Today: 29th October, BBC News, 29 October 2009, 16 October 2012,

Advisory board

The magazine once had an advisory board of historians including

• Simon Schama
• Richard Evans
• Laurence Rees
• Kenneth O Morgan
• Ian Kershaw

Podcast

In June 2007 the magazine launched the first of its podcasts featuring interviews with leading historians.BBC History Magazine podcast

See also

• BBC Worldwide

References

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External links

• BBC History Magazine website
• weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20060412181216weblink">Origin Publishing website

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