History Revealed

History Revealed brings the past to life for everyone. It’s an action-packed, image-rich magazine with zero stuffiness. Each issue has a central section that takes a closer look at one of history’s big stories, such as the Wild West or Ancient Rome, telling everything you need to know. We also explore the lives of the truly famous, follow the great adventures of the past, taste the blood and thunder of battles, and look at how closely Hollywood blockbusters have told history. Plus, we answer questions about some of the more surprising and strange aspects of the past. If you want to get into history, subscribe today.

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FACE OF MEDIEVAL MAN RECONSTRUCTED • The 600-year-old Aberdeen skeleton has been brought back to life

BAYEUX TAPESTRY MYSTERY SOLVED • Historians can finally stop squabbling about the tapestry’s first home

FRANCO’S BODY REBURIED

20 TONNES

BRITISH OUTPOST HALTED NUCLEAR WAR

HENRY VIII’S DIVORCE LED TO ‘COPY-CAT SPLITS’

TIME PIECE • A look at everyday objects from the past

CENTRAL PARK TO HAVE ITS FIRST STATUE HONOURING WOMEN • The New York park is full of monuments celebrating men through history, but no women

HISTORY IN COLOUR • Colourised photographs that bring the past to life

Dan Jones • The writer, historian and TV presenter wants to make sure we know Dick Whittington was so much more than a “political sockpuppet for his cat”

LAWRENCE’S LAMENT

GERMANS IN BRITAIN FACE PERSECUTION AND VIOLENCE • After the sinking of the Lusitania , hostility towards German communities intensifies

DICKENS PUBLISHES A CHRISTMAS CAROL • The author immortalises the picture-perfect Victorian Christmas in his festive ghost story with a heart

YEAR IN FOCUS 1697 • Snapshots of the world from one year in the past

ALSO IN 1697...

DIED: 28 JANUARY

BORN: 10 NOVEMBER

Secrets of the Tudor Court • What was life like for Henry VIII when he wasn’t tearing down monasteries or wooing a new wife? Tracy Borman examines what went on day-to-day in the King’s court – and why keeping up appearances was key to his hold on the throne

CARDINAL’S SIN

A Tudor Christmas

A feast fit for a king

SECRET SUPPERS

TOMMY FUN

Tudor pastimes

Five smells that made Georgian England • They say a picture paints a thousand words, but what about smell? William Tullett delivers an on-the-nose guide to the pungent aromas that raised a stink in 18th-century England

Come up smelling like roses

Something fishy

Smoke is out, but spit is fine

The faintest notion

The colour of tragic

Ada Blackjack STRANDED IN THE ARCTIC • Ellie Cawthorne tells the tale of the ‘female Robinson Crusoe’, who escaped death’s frozen grasp when all around her perished

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ONE COOL CAT

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ENGLAND THROUGH A LENS • Emma Slattery Williams explores the work of Tony Ray-Jones: a pioneer of British post-war photography whose images distilled the lighthearted, social side of English life in the late 1960s

THE TRUE STORY OF THE NATIVITY • Can we take the story of Christmas as gospel? Spencer Mizen thumbs through the conflicting accounts of Christ’s birth to separate fact from fable

HEROD • JUDEA’S PUPPET KING?

JESUS & THE NATIVITY FIVE KEY LOCALES FROM THE GOSPELS • Though some of the incidents described in the gospels might be hard to verify, pinpointing where they could have taken place is not

AMERICA’S FOUNDING FATHERS • With constitutional issues currently defining politics on both sides of the Atlantic, Nige...