May 2018 (Issue 55)

Expert articles from the May 2018 issue of BBC History Revealed Magazine

Photo showing a snowy Wounded Knee, where US troops massacred the Lakota Sioux, with bodies visible in the foreground

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The massacre at Wounded Knee: why did the US Army attack the Lakota Sioux?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Medal winners on a podium

Victorian

Q&AWho won the first Olympic medal? And what was the prize before that?

Picture depicting the Cato Street conspirators

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To kill the cabinet: the Cato Street Conspiracy of 1820. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Hughes Glomar Explorer was a salvage vessel disguised as a mining ship, designed to secretly recover Soviet sub K-129

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Project Azorian: the Cold War CIA mission to snatch Soviet nuclear sub K-129 from the sea floor. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn on their wedding day

Tudor

The royal weddings of Henry VIII: Alison Weir on what came before divorced, beheaded, died...