BBC History Revealed Magazine

Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert, pictured in 1854. (Photo by Roger Fenton/Roger Fenton/Getty Images)

Victorian

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert: what was their relationship like?

Aerial view reconstruction drawing of Maiden Castle

Iron Age

A brief guide to the British Iron Age

Adolf Hitler. (Photo by Heinrich Hoffmann/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Second World War

Your guide to Adolf Hitler: key facts about the Nazi dictator

Photo of an Anglo Saxon helmet found at Sutton Hoo

Anglo-Saxon

Sutton Hoo: a brief guide to the Anglo-Saxon burial site and its discovery

Smokey the bear is presented with a firefighter's helmet

General Modern

The paratrooper, the poet's pet and the real Winnie: 10 famous bears in history

Did Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler (pictured) ever meet? (Photos by Getty Images)

Second World War

Q&ADid Churchill and Hitler ever meet?

Harriet Tubman (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad: how one woman saved hundreds from hell. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of Queen Victoria

Victorian

Queen Victoria: how and why did she become Empress of India?

Illustration of a mummy with mask

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How to make an Egyptian mummy in 6 steps. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava during the Crimean War

Victorian

Victorians and war: which conflicts were fought during the Victorian era?

Statue of Leif Erikson (Leifur Erikssonn) in front of Eric the Red's home. (Photo by Draper White, Getty Images)

Viking

Leif Erikson’s voyage to Vinland

Richard III

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What if…Richard III had won at Bosworth?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Victoria

Victorian

The Victorians and the British Empire: a brief guide and timeline

19th century advert for snuff

Georgian

Q&AWhat was snuff?

Victorian

Charles Darwin and the Beagle: how the voyage transformed our understanding of the world

Monument to Prince Vladimir the Great in Moscow

Viking

Q&AWho were the Kievan Rus and what do they have to do with the Vikings?

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Fishbourne Roman Palace, plus 5 more Roman mosaics you can explore in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Alfred Nobel (Bettmann/Getty Images)

General Modern

The history of the Nobel Prizes

Medieval

The Huguenots vs France: who were the Huguenots and what did they believe?

Scrooge and Marley's ghost

Victorian

Q&AWhy do we say ‘Bah Humbug’ and what does it mean?

Princess Elizabeth (the future Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret as Prince Charming and Cinderella in a 1941 pantomime

Georgian

Q&AWhat are the origins of the Christmas pantomime?

'Merry Christmas' Victorian illustration of Santa Claus holding toys and blowing on a trumpet, chromolithograph, 1915. (Illustration by GraphicaArtis/Getty Images)

Stuart

Father Christmas and Santa Claus: a brief history of two Christmas champions

A Victorian Christmas

Victorian

What was Christmas like in the Victorian era?

Rosa Parks being fingerprinted after her arrest

20th Century

Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat: what happened next?

Chess players in the 14th century

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Ancient board games: which ones did people play for fun in the past?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Trojan Horse – seen in the 2004 film Troy

Ancient Greece

How much of the legend of Troy is real?

Marble bust of Caligula

Roman

Caligula: murderous and depraved, or a victim of history?

Victorian

Your guide to...debtors' prisons

Painting of the Field of Cloth of Gold (artist unknown) from around 1545

Tudor

Your guide to...the Field of the Cloth of Gold

Statue of King Alfred the Great in leafy Trinity Church Square, Southwark. It is thought to be the oldest statue in London.

Anglo-Saxon

Q&AWhat’s the oldest statue in London?

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