BBC History Revealed Magazine  |  March 2020
The medieval era was a time of plagues, poxes and pestilence, when human understanding of disease was shaped by the movements of the planets in the night sky and everyday infections often proved fatal. How did anyone survive it all? Find out as we explore the reality of medicine in the Middle Ages
Plus: we examine how Hitler appropriated a symbol of peace – the swastika – and made it an emblem of Nazism; recount ten gruesome botched executions from history; delve into counterfactual history in our new What If… feature; profile Oscar Wilde’s poet and provocateur nephew; and much more
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in BBC History Revealed Magazine March 2020.