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2019-01-24
The Viking apocalypse
An American in London
Songs of the Holocaust
Fleeing Idi Amin
A lady in the line of fire
Women of influence?
Studying history
MY HISTORY HERO
History Explorer: Bloomsbury
Five things to do in February
My favourite place: Warsaw
Samantha’s recipe corner
Backgrounder: Commuting
Prize crossword
Selkirk is rescued from desert island isolation
Dior unveils the ‘New Look’
Columbus announces his ‘discovery’ of the Americas
The Roman empire embraces Christianity
COMMENT / Daniel Reynolds
A legacy in action
“Many of these New World seamen would not have seen their families for a number of years”
PAST NOTES
“It was a time of great violence and cruelty – but beauty too”
The Peterloo divide
Overblown myths
Time of the Wolf
A buried-alive population
Cathedrals of progress
High-born “locusts”
To the American observer, Britain was a nation in which political justice was denied to all but the monied few The clamour for reform
London’s dystopia
Mountains and meadows
How women fought back
In 1740, in a case heard at the Old Bailey, 16-year- old William Duell was found guilty of the rape and murder of a servant, Sarah Griffin. He was hanged at noon on 24 November. His body was laid out on a slab ready for dissection…
MY FAMILY’S STORY
HISTORICAL NOVELIST
FILM PRODUCER/DIRECTOR
Out of the shadows
Revolution and repression
Ancient athletes
Striking it rich
Ghosts in the trenches
Vial deeds
FICTION Trade secrets
THREE MORE NOVELS ON BRITISH SLAVE TRADING
Identity crisis
Carving out a dynasty: Mamluk soldiers shown in c1350 metalwork
FOUR MORE PLACES TO EXPLORE
Q Did the formation of ill-prepared ‘pals battalions’ contribute to the heavy British losses during the battle of the Somme?
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