March 2019 (Issue 66)

Expert articles from the March 2019 issue of BBC History Revealed Magazine

A woman reading a vintage thesaurus

Ancient Greece

Q&AWho wrote the first thesaurus?

George Westinghouse, Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla

Victorian

Edison, Westinghouse and Tesla: the history behind The Current War

Woodcut illustration of slave labour on a sugar plantation

Membership

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

Simon the cat

General Modern

10 top cats in history

Captain James Lawrence of the Chesapeake is wounded

Membership

The capture of the Chesapeake: how the British Royal Navy rescued its reputation in the War of 1812. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Oil on canvas of the Princes in the Tower

Medieval

An enigma at the heart of British history: who killed the Princes in the Tower, Edward V and Richard Duke of York?

Marble bust of Agrippina the Younger

Roman

Agrippina the Younger: the first true empress of Ancient Rome