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Coming up in the October 2019 issue of BBC History Revealed

18 August 1819: British soldiers charging the crowd at St Peter's Fields, Manchester, during a meeting called in support of political reform. (Photo by Spencer Arnold Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A “more shocking” massacre? How we might have overestimated the Peterloo crowds

Brendan Sims, professor of the history of international relations at the University of Cambridge

Second World War

Books interview with Brendan Simms: “Hitler didn’t see Germany’s main enemy as Soviet communism, but Anglo-American capitalism”

Simon was found with his whiskers burned off and hurt by four pieces of shrapnel. The medical officer thought he wouldn’t survive the night (Photo by Keystone Pictures USA / Alamy Stock Photo)

10 top cats in history

19th-century mugshots

The real Peaky Blinders

Aerial view of Dover Castle

Explore Explore Dover Castle: Britain’s first line of defence

Dire straits: Beggars are depicted in a woodcut. In the 16th century, waves of crop failures persuaded the government to place poor relief on the statute book. (Image by Bridgeman)

Taxing the rich to feed the poor in the 17th century: the world’s first welfare state

Jews stand with hands up before German soldiers

Second World War

The brutal blitzkrieg: the 1939 invasion of Poland

Native American leader Sitting Bull

My history hero Sitting Bull (1831–90)

A 16th-century map showing Magellan's ship

A voyage from hell: how Magellan’s circumnavigation of the world changed history

US soldiers in Vietnam

From the Napoleonic Wars to Vietnam and Iraq: a history of war trauma

Changdeokgung Palace in South Korea

Explore Seoul, South Korea: a modern metropolis rising from ruins

A painting of the Princes in the Tower

Did Richard III really kill the Princes in the Tower?

Families in a London slum, c1900

From slums to suburbs: Britain’s council house revolution