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August 2019 (Issue 71)

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

Ramesses II holding prisoners
Ancient Egypt

Was Ramesses II really that great?

The HMS Victory in Portsmouth
Georgian

A visit to HMS Victory, Nelson’s flagship at Trafalgar

Rosa Parks rides on a Montgomery bus
20th Century

From Sutton Hoo to Rosa Parks: 50 giant leaps in history

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The Venus de Milo sculpture
Ancient Greece

Q&A When was the Venus de Milo found?

Sir Walter Raleigh bids goodbye to his wife, Elizabeth Throckmorton
Elizabethan

Q&A Why was Sir Walter Ralegh executed?

The ancient Greek physician Dioscorides
General ancient history

Happy plants and laughing weeds: how people of the ancient world used – and abused – drugs

Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle
Georgian

Q&A Who wrote the French national anthem?

National guardsmen confront confront citizens during Chicago's race riots
20th Century

Red summer of 1919: Chicago’s darkest days

The Peterloo Massacre
Georgian

The Peterloo Massacre: how a peaceful protest turned into bloody chaos

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