History Extra Magazine
19 March, 2026
History Extra is Britain's best selling history magazine devoted to history enthusiasts of all levels of knowledge and interest. Published 13 times a year, History Extra magazine brings history to life with informative, lively and entertaining features written by the world's leading historians and journalists.
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A dictator’s demise
"to portray rasputin as a figure of pure evil is as misleading as depicting him solely as a holy man"
The face fixation
Blood and plunder
Q&a
How medieval mothers took back control
Rome’s people power
What was the most important invention in history?
Seventy years ago, nikita khrushchev stood before a packed hall in central moscow and delivered a four-hour denunciation of josef stalin, one that exposed mass terror and attempted to reclaim the legacy of leninism. so what drove this extraordinarily radical move? and did the soviet people buy khrushchev’s message?
England’s mistress
Letter of the month
Lavenham’s fortunes declined when it failed to adapt to new methods
