BBC History Magazine, 2021/10

The modern Middle Ages From climate change to pandemics, Dan Jones looks at the issues that preoccupied our medieval ancestors – and keep us awake at night today What is history in 2021? Suzannah Lipscomb and Helen Carr consider how we should tell the story of the past in the 21st century Royals in the trenches The British royal family emerged from the First World War stronger than ever. Heather Jones explains why The radical Wedgwood Tristram Hunt reveals how an English potter embedded activism into his celebrated earthenware Romancing the Tudors Sarah Gristwood chronicles how Henry VIII and Elizabeth I used courtly love to further their agendas In the shadow of 9/11 David Reynolds asks if the events of 11 September 2001 really were a turning point in world history The future for the past Four historians discuss the issues shaping the study of history in universities, from Covid-19 to calls to decolonise the curriculum