BBC History Magazine - 2021-03-18

• A year in the empire
• Cleopatra v Rome
• Writing LGBTQ history
• Neandertha­l in the mirror
• A nation in numbers
• Renaissanc­e scoundrel
• Interview: Shrabani Basu on the unusual rural crime investigat­ion that caught the attention of Arthur Conan Doyle
• My history hero
• Michael Wood on the latest discoverie­s at Stonehenge
• New history books reviewed
• Prize crossword
• Hidden in plain sight?
• How a game of ping-pong thawed US-Sino relations
• The spirit of defiance
• Robert Peel
• Lord Salisbury
• David Lloyd George
• Clement Attlee
• A NEGLECTED LEGACY
• The striking decline of labour disputes
• The ins and outs of migration
• How did people in hiding communicat­e with confidants before modern means of communicat­ion?
• What are the origins of the caesarean section?
• WHO WERE THE NEANDERTHA­LS?
• The Mirror and the Palette
• We asked our Twitter followers which history books captured their childhood imaginatio­ns…
• The Handshake: A Gripping History
• Screen queens
• A global legacy
• In search of safety
• The birth of Bangladesh
• “Images featuring an idealised sense of beauty pervaded every aspect of Georgian society”
• Poached eggs in moonshine

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