March 2015 (Issue 14)

Expert articles from the March 2015 issue of BBC History Revealed Magazine

Nell Gwyn was a mistress of King Charles II

Stuart

Nell GywnThe orange girl who became a king's mistress in Restoration England

Limestone relief depicting a a procession of courtiers paying homage to the Ahiram, king of the Phoenician city of Byblos

General ancient history

Your guide to...the Phoenicians

Top, left to right: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour. Bottom, left to right: Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Katherine Parr.

Tudor

Henry VIII’s six wives: your guide to the Tudor king's queen consorts

c1656: A plague doctor in protective clothing. The beak mask held spices thought to purify air, while the wand was used to avoid touching patients. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Stuart

Q&AWhy did 17th-century plague doctors wear peculiar beaked masks?

A still from a 1960 film about the Alamo, showing the chapel being covered by troops

Victorian

Remember the Alamo! What happened in the 1836 siege and battle?

Picture of children being put to bed

Membership

Q&AWhat was 'pigging'?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of archaeologist revealing a skull

General ancient history

Q&AWho was the first archaeologist?

Photo of a horse

Elizabethan

Why do we say 'horse of a different colour'?