BBC History Magazine – January 2023

Medieval marvels
Ian Mortimer hails the staggering progress – in everything from medicine to exploration – achieved by our medieval ancestors.

Histories of fear
Kate Summerscale explores what five phobias reveal about our anxieties though the centuries.

A golden age for women?
Marion Turner on what Chaucer’s Wife of Bath can tell us about a time of great change for women.

How the Holocaust began
James Bulgin on how the German invasion of the Soviet Union triggered a policy of annihilation in eastern Europe.