BBC History Revealed Magazine

Mural of the battle of Actium from 1600

Roman

Actium, 31 BC: the beginning of the end for Mark Antony and Cleopatra

Painting of Martin Luther translating the New Testament into German vernacular in 1521 (Photo by Fine Art Photographic Library/Corbis via Getty Images)

Tudor

Your guide to Martin Luther, the theologian who launched the Reformation

Top, left to right: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour. Bottom, left to right: Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Katherine Parr.

Tudor

Henry VIII’s six wives: your guide to the Tudor king's queen consorts

A 19th-century painting of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

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What if…Abraham Lincoln hadn't been assassinated?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Attila the Hun

General ancient history

Who was Attila the Hun, the barbarian ruler who terrorised the Romans?

Colourised print of the Lighthouse of Alexandria as imagined in the 18th century

General ancient history

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: what were they, and what happened to them?

Illustration of Venetian merchant Marco Polo travels along the Silk Road to China

General ancient history

Your guide to...the Silk Road

Dr Michael Mosley holds up a tapeworm

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Tapeworms, arsenic and magic soap: fact-checking history’s weirdest fad diets and weight-loss gimmicks. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 16th-century painting of the Tower of Babel

General ancient history

Your guide to...the ancient city of Babylon

Portrait of the Bronte sisters

Victorian

The Brontës: the unfortunate and unlikely tale of the world’s "greatest literary sisters"

National guardsmen confront confront citizens during Chicago's race riots

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Red summer of 1919: the history of Chicago's race riots. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Egyptian ships sunk at the entrance of the Suez Canal at Port Said

20th Century

Your guide to...the Suez Crisis

The Kray brothers

Victorian

The A-Z of British gangs and gangsters

Four Murder, Inc hitmen are questioned by detectives

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Murder, Inc: the rise and fall of New York City's mafia hitmen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The battle of First Bar, 1841

Victorian

Your guide to...the Opium Wars

The original ‘Big Three’ at Livadia Palace in Yalta: Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. None of them came away from the summit with everything they had hoped for. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)

Second World War

Your guide to...The Yalta and Potsdam conferences, 1945

Early medieval

Q&AWho was St Swithin?

A group of fighter pilots of No. 32 Squadron relax beside their Hawker Hurricane Mk I fighters at RAF Hawkinge in July 1940

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The Few: who exactly were the heroes of the Battle of Britain?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A view of Mount Everest

20th Century

Mystery on Everest: did Mallory and Irvine reach the summit in 1924?

Scene from the the Westminster Tournament Roll, commissioned by Henry VIII to document the lavish jousting tournament held to celebrate the birth of his son with Catherine of Aragon

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What if…Henry VIII's first son had lived?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Prospecting towns like Dawson boomed during the gold rush.

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The dark side of the 19th-century gold rush. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton

Stuart

Isaac Newton: life, discoveries, rivalries and the truth about the apple

Two girls are tried for witchcraft in a courtroom scene

Stuart

What were the Salem Witch Trials?

Marble bust of Nero

Roman

Emperor Nero: the tyrant of Rome

Woodcut illustration of slave labour on a sugar plantation

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Success, sugar and slaves: the uncomfortable story of slaveholder Simon Taylor. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Olaudah Equiano (Photo by Getty)

General Early Modern

Who was Olaudah Equiano – and why was his story of slavery so important?

John Profumo in October 1962

20th Century

Sex, lies and spies: the real history of the Profumo Affair

Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms, 1521. This was an assembly of the Holy Roman Empire called by King Charles V in Heylshof Garden, Worms, to address Martin Luther and the effects of the Protestant Reformation. (Photo by The Print Collector via Getty Images)

Tudor

What was the Reformation?

A researcher examines the medieval Voynich Manuscript with a magnifying glass

Medieval

The Voynich Manuscript: who wrote the mystery medieval codex and what is it trying to tell us?

An engraving depicting a scene of chaos at Bethlem Royal Hospital

Victorian

Bethlem Royal Hospital: why did the infamous Bedlam asylum have such a fearsome reputation?

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