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Coming up in the January 2020 issue of BBC History Revealed

A c1880 Christmas card shows a frog committing murder

Carrots, goblins and killer frogs: an unexpected history of Christmas

Eleanor of Aquitaine depicted in a 12th-century prayer book

The real Eleanor of Aquitaine: 5 myths about the medieval queen

Oskar Schindler, who prevented hundreds of Jews from being murdered in the Holocaust

Second World War

My history hero Simon Reeve chooses Oskar Schindler (1908–74)

Few war leaders have been more profoundly steeped in history than Winston Churchill, who drew inspiration from his ancestor – and one of Britain's most celebrated generals – the Duke of Marlborough (left). (Images by Getty Images/Bridgeman

Second World War

Sending history into battle: the lessons that war leaders have tried to learn from the past

A statue of the Roman emperor Augustus in Augsburg, Germany

After the empire: the fall of Roman Britain

The White House in Washington DC, which has been home to all US presidents since John Adams in 1800. (Photo by Getty Images)

8 facts you might not know about the White House, home of the president of the USA

Lauren Bruner and Iyozo Fujita

Second World War

Pearl Harbor: 5 frontline stories from people who were there

Rosa Parks rides an integrated bus

From Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King: the boycott that inspired the dream

Members of the Ku Klux Klan march down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC in 1925. The Klan of this era was a terrorist group in the precise meaning of that term, says Linda Gordon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

When the Ku Klux Klan was a mass movement

A 'Thanksgiving Greetings' postcard. (Photo by K.J. Historical/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

A brief history of Thanksgiving

Nancy Astor on the campaign trail in 1919

Nancy Astor facts: 100 years since the first female MP in British history took her seat in parliament

Princess Margaret attends the premiere of Captain Horatio Hornblower, Leicester Square, 1951. (Photo by Ron Burton/Keystone/Getty Images)

Princess Margaret: from glamorous royal to a slide into tragedy

John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon were both in their 40s during the 1960 presidential campaign. (Image by Alamy)

Does history show that age affects US presidents’ performance? Plus, how old is too old?

A portrait of Isabella I of Castile. (Photo by PHAS/UIG via Getty Images)

Isabella I of Castile: Europe’s greatest queen?