BBC History UK 04.2020

l i c e n c e (^) t o (^) s te al → With the new Bond film soon to arrive in cinemas, Henry Hemming introduces the real-life ins ...

S ome authors spend years on their first novel. Ian Fleming’s came in a matter of weeks. In January 1952, the middle-aged Britis ...

→ Possible Bond model Patrick Dalzel -Job, a member of Fleming’s wartime commando unit, with his wife Bjørg M for mummy? Bond au ...

The inspiration behind Bond Q The lethal origins of a lovable eccentric A fact well-known to Bondologists (less so to everyone e ...

Henry Hemming is the author of six works of non-fiction, including M: Maxwell Knight, MI5’s Greatest Spymaster (Preface Publishi ...

“ M ute astonishment was excited a few days ago in the London Bankruptcy Court, by the appearance there, briefs in hand, with wo ...

for other sources of income. He was a talented musician, and for a while he taught music to undergraduates, among them the Dean ...

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40 41 → The Cato Street conspiracy GEORGIAN TERRORISTS Bloody designsCato Street conspirators (from l to r) John Monument, Arthu ...

Vivid experiences A self-portrait of Artemisia Gentileschi, the Italian Baroque artist whose brilliant renderings of biblical an ...

She had a turbulent personal life but that didn’t stop Artemisia Gentileschi becoming one of the greatest painters of the 17th c ...

GETTY IMAGES/BRIDGEMAN she is distressed by the experience. This is a depiction of female trauma, not a saucy entertainment. The ...

GETTY IMAGES confirmed: “I never had any sexual relations with any other person besides the said Agostino. It is true that Cosim ...

GETTY IMAGES/ALAMY The art of Artemisia The agony and the ecstasy The paintings that won Artemisia widespread acclaim Mary Magda ...

→ AKG-IMAGES/ALAMY Susanna and the Elders 1610 The earliest of Artemisia’s surviving works, painted when she was just 17, Susann ...

GETTY IMAGES The art of Artemisia Stage fright George – depicted in 1820 as Mozart’s operatic womaniser Don Giovanni – recoils i ...

GETTY IMAGES Catherine Fletcher is a historian of Renaissance and early modern Europe. Her latest book is The Beauty and the Ter ...

THE BLOODBATH A The path to annihilation ABOVE: Our montage image shows a US rifleman looking out for Japanese snipers hiding in ...

H AND THE BOMB The US assault on Okinawa 75 years ago was the bloodiest of the Pacific War, an 83-day slog that cost 250,000 liv ...

“ S moke and dust rose up from the shore, thousands of feet high,” wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle ...