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May 2019 (Issue 68)
May 2019 (Issue 68)
Expert articles from the May 2019 issue of BBC History Revealed Magazine
20th Century
JRR Tolkien
The making of Middle Earth
20th Century
Dien Bien Phu: the battle that split Vietnam
Georgian
Q&A
Who was Madame Tussaud’s first waxwork?
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Victorian
Q&A
What was the Thin Red Line?
General History
An A-Z guide to the history of executions
Georgian
10 brilliant beards from history
Ancient Greece
Love, magic and murder: the strange death of Philoneos in 430BC
20th Century
Alcock and Brown: the first aviators to fly across the Atlantic
Medieval
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What did Edward ‘confess’?
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20th Century
Joe Meek: the life and legacy of the British record producer