BBC History Revealed Magazine | Feb-21
Embark on a journey through the history of medicine, exploring how our ancestors coped with deadly diseases like plague, typhoid and cholera, and charting the great leaps in medical knowledge that have brought us to where we are today. When were vaccines invented? Who was the first person to prove that germs were capable of causing disease? What on earth was a ‘gong farmer’?
Plus:
• Fake tanks and spoof soldiers: the Allies’ WW2 ‘ghost army’
• Grace O’Malley, the pirate queen of Ireland
• The Great Mormon Migration of 1846
• Would the Roman empire still have been created if Julius Caesar hadn’t been assassinated?
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in BBC History Revealed Magazine Feb-21.