July 2019 (Issue 70)

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

US heavyweight boxing champ Joe Louis receives a medal during WW2

Second World War

From Joe Lewis to Audrey Hepburn: 10 famous faces of WW2

An illustration of the head of Louis XVI

Guillotined in the French Revolution: the bloody story through 7 severed heads

Lord Fiske, chairman of the Decimal Currency Board, makes a purchase at a Woolworths using the new currency on Decimal Day, 15 February 1971

Decimal Day: when Britain said farewell to the shilling

The police attempt to quell the crowd, and succeed only in inciting more violence. (Photo by NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

The Stonewall Riots: the flashpoint that launched the gay rights movement in the US

Wrens worked as code-breakers at Bletchley Park.

Second World War

Female codebreakers: the women of Bletchley Park

Construction of a medieval church

Bravado or blunder? Architectural fails of medieval church builders

The four-month Siege of Malta.

The Great Siege of Malta, 1565: the crusaders’ last stand

The nearly 2,000-mile First Transcontinental Railroad, seen shortly before completion in 1869. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

How wild was the Wild West?

Live Aid stage at Wembley, London, in 1985

When Live Aid rocked the world