BBC History Revealed Magazine - October 2022

In this issue

The last days of Pompeii
We chart the terrifying events of AD 79 that saw the city transformed into an ash-covered hellscape.

Emerging from the ash
Find out how Pompeii’s rediscovery saw it become one of the world’s greatest archaeological marvels.

The women who stood up to Hitler
The story of how Mussolini’s daughter, a German spy, and an American banker’s wife outwitted the Nazis..

The Suez Crisis begins

I 'n early November 1956 the Suez Canal in Egypt was choked with ships. But these vessels weren't sailing down the 120-mile waterway that connected the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.

3 mins

THE MYSTERY OF MISS LAMOND

IN THE FIRST INSTALMENT OF HER NEW MONTHLY COLUMN, CRIME HISTORIAN DR NELL DARBY INVESTIGATES A LEGAL CASE THAT PUT A PRIVATE EYE'S REPUTATION ON THE LINE

3 mins

The South Sea Bubble

The South Sea Bubble was a period of speculation frenzy and collapse on the British stock market, revolving around the fate of a single company. For years, the South Sea Company had been at the centre of a complex and tangled web of financial manoeuvrings; deliberately obfuscated dealings around selling shares and government debt; the exploitation of publicity and hype to inflate stock prices; as well as bribery, corruption and the slave trade.

4 mins

How J Edgar Hoover secretly ruled America

The long-serving director of the FBI sat at the centre of a web of surveillance and information gathering for nearly five decades. But how did he come to wield so much power? And why were his agents so feared?

3 mins

6 DUNKIRK THINGS YOU (PROBABLY) DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT

Military historian James Holland shares some lesser-known facts about the evacuation at Dunkirk, and the fighting that led up to it...

6 mins

EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT POMPEII

Dr Sophie Hay answers key questions about the doomed Roman city and the ongoing efforts to understand the lives of its residents

7 mins

LIFE BEFORE THE CATASTROPHE

Pre-eruption Pompeii was a busy and affluent place to live, and where new building projects were transforming the local landscape

3 mins

THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII

We chart the terrifying events of AD 79 that saw Pompeii transformed from a bustling Roman city into an ash-covered hellscape of death and destruction...

6 mins

EMERGING FROM THE ASH

Pompeii's eventual rediscovery led it to become one of the world's greatest archaeological marvels - and a site visited by millions

5 mins

CHANGING PERCEPTIONS

Two years after their last collaboration, digital artist Marina Amaral and historian Dan Jones have joined forces once again, this time bringing together a range of colourised images that explore women's lives between 1850-1960

3 mins

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BBC History Revealed Magazine Description:

History Revealed brings the past to life for everyone. It’s an action-packed, image-rich magazine with zero stuffiness, jam-packed with facts, features and historical fun. If you enjoy finding out how things happened, love a good story, want to revel in stunning images from the past, or lap up trivia and facts, then History Revealed is the magazine for you.