The murder of Thomas Becket

WELCOME JUNE 2021

Countless women faced arrest and mistreatment during their

SNAPSHOTS

GETTY IMAGES 1919 PREPARING FOR PEACE Women carefully

THINGS WE LEARNED THIS MONTH...

RECENT HISTORY HEADLINES THAT CAUGHT OUR EYE

Food historian

MEET THE PEOPLE BRINGING THE PAST TO LIFE

Operation Overlord gets underway

ANNIVERSARIES THAT HAVE MADE HISTORY

JUNE ANNIVERSARIES

A LOOK BACK AT THREE OTHER EVENTS THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN JUNE THROUGHOUT HISTORY

The Carnation Revolution

YOUR BRIEF EXPLAINER TO HISTORY’S HOT TOPICS

FIGHTING A NEW BATTLE

When war reared its ugly head in 1914, thousands of suffragettes paused their campaigns to serve king and country. rust into roles once occupied by men, society would never be the same again

TV, FILM & RADIO

THE LATEST DOCUMENTARIES, BLOCKBUSTERS AND PERIOD DRAMAS

EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS

WHAT TO SEE AND WHERE TO VISIT IN THE WIDER WORLD OF HISTORY

BOOKS & PODCASTS

THIS MONTH’S BEST HISTORICAL READS AND LISTENS

WHAT TO LISTEN TO...

Each month we bring you three of our favourite podcasts from the BBC and HistoryExtra…

Q&A CJ Carey

CJ Carey is a pseudonym for British journalist and author Jane Thynne. She has worked for the BBC, The Daily Telegraph and The Independent. Widowland is her tenth novel. She lives in London and was married to fellow author Philip Kerr until his death in 2018

HISTORICAL FICTION...

Widowland By CJ Carey 10 June 2021, Quercus,

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ARRESTING IMAGES FROM THE ANNALS OF THE PAST

YOUR ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE SUFFRAGETTES

Emmeline Pankhurst, co-founder of the Women’s Social and

Q&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER

HISTORY’S GREATEST CONUNDRUMS AND MYSTERIES SOLVED

THE ROAD TO THE VOTE

An overview of the century-long struggle to achieve su rage for all wo  men across the United Kingdom

EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE SUFFRAGETTES

Historian and author Dr Diane Atkinson answers key questions about the fight for women’s suffrage in Britain

THE PIONEERING PANKHURSTS

One family, led by matriarch Emmeline Pankhurst, would lead the charge towards equality and votes for women

A COMMON CAUSE

From western Europe to the islands of the Pacific, we examine the hard-fought battles to secure su rage across the globe

DEEDS NOT WORDS

The suffragettes used a variety of methods to try and persuade the government to give women the vote – some more extreme than others

SUFFERING FOR SUFFRAGE

Suffragettes faced imprisonment, attacks in the street, unemployment and even abandonment by their families

BIG NUMBERS: WOMEN IN WORLD WARI

8 THINGS YOU (PROBABLY) DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT THE SUFFRAGETTES

Dr Jacqui Turner reveals some lesser-known facts about the militant political movement that shook Britain 

CHAMPIONS OF THE CAUSE

Eight other people who supported the campaign for women’s right to vote

VICTORY AT LAST?

By the end of 1918, the suffragettes had partially succeeded in their aims – millions of women now had the vote, and could also stand as MPs. But there was still further progress to be made

GET HOOKED

If we’ve whetted your appetite for su ragette history, why not explore the topic further with our pick of books, films and podcasts

PERCY SMITH THE QUIET REVOLUTIONARY

One man can truly be seen as the godfather of natural history filmmaking. Nige Tassell celebrates the life and work of Percy Smith

THE LONESOME DEATH OF PERCY SMITH

Smith’s suicide remains a tragic mystery

BECOMING ANNE BOLEYN

Amy Licence explains how the future English queen’s youth in royal courts on the continent made her a Renaissance woman – but perhaps one for whom England wasn’t quite ready

WHAT IF... ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA HAD WON AT ACTIUM?

Professor Catharine Edwards tells Jonny Wilkes why the famous lovers had little guarantee of rescuing the Roman Republic – even if they had emerged victorious against Octavian’s navy