December 2018 (Issue 62)

Expert articles from the December 2018 issue of BBC History Revealed Magazine

The Apollo 8 crew in a capsule during training

Apollo 8: why NASA’s Christmas mission to the Moon was a bright end to a dark year

An early 19th-century painting of Napoleon Bonaparte

Q&A Where is Napoleon buried?

Mary Anning was an extremely prolific fossil hunter

Mary Anning: the woman who hunted dinosaurs

Rosa Parks being fingerprinted after her arrest

Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat: what happened next?

Illustation of a pope

Holy smoke, antipopes and power struggles: a guide to popes and the papacy