Christmas 2015 (Issue 24)

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

A portrait of George Robert Twelves Hewes

Georgian

George Robert Twelves Hewes: the shoemaker who became a patriot

Photo of an Anglo Saxon helmet found at Sutton Hoo

Anglo-Saxon

Sutton Hoo: a brief guide to the Anglo-Saxon burial site and its discovery

Painting of an auto-da-fé

Medieval

Your guide to...the Spanish Inquisition

Photo of a couple holding up a fan

Georgian

Q&AWhat signals were used in fan language?

Photo of a Canadian postage stamp

20th Century

Q&AWhen was the first Christmas stamp issued?