May 2019 (Issue 68)

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

Writer JRR Tolkien smokes a pipe

20th Century

JRR TolkienThe making of Middle Earth

Paratroopers over Dien Bien Phu

20th Century

Dien Bien Phu: the battle that split Vietnam

Madame Tussaud's exhibition at Baker Street, London. But who was her first waxwork? (Photo by Bettmann, via Getty Images)

Georgian

Q&AWho was Madame Tussaud’s first waxwork?

An engraving of the thin Red Line, depicting the 93rd Regiment at the battle of Balaklava

Victorian

Q&AWhat was the Thin Red Line?

The pirate Blackbeard

Georgian

10 brilliant beards from history

Women in ancient Athens

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A biplane takes off from Newfoundland

20th Century

Alcock and Brown: the first aviators to fly across the Atlantic

Edward the Confessor depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry.

Medieval

Q&AWhat did Edward ‘confess’?

Record producer Joe Meek

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