March 2019 (Issue 66)

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

A woman reading a vintage thesaurus

Q&A Who wrote the first thesaurus?

George Westinghouse, Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla

Edison, Westinghouse and Tesla: the history behind The Current War

Woodcut illustration of slave labour on a sugar plantation

Success, sugar and slaves: the uncomfortable story of slaveholder Simon Taylor

Simon the cat

10 top cats in history

Captain James Lawrence of the Chesapeake is wounded

The capture of the Chesapeake: how the British Royal Navy rescued its reputation in the War of 1812

Oil on canvas of the Princes in the Tower

An enigma at the heart of British history: who killed the Princes in the Tower, Edward V and Richard Duke of York?

Marble bust of Agrippina the Younger

Agrippina the Younger: the first true empress of Ancient Rome