BBC History Magazine - 2021-09-02

• The future for the past
• Royals in the trenches
• Interview: Saul David reveals how the Special Boat Service helped change the course of the Second World War
• Explore: Gloucester’s rich heritage
• New history books reviewed
• Foundation­al stories
• Liverpool stripped of World Heritage status
• Prejudice on the pitch
• The Red Cross is founded
• Alexander the Great slaughters Persian troops
• A British nurse is tried for treason in occupied Brussels
• WHY WE SHOULD REMEMBER…
• King John dies of dysentery
• Merriman-Labor’s searing satire of the British was not well received
• A troubling legacy
• Hell and high water
• A steep learning curve
• When the world grew smaller
• THE OPEN SEA
• The Kings and Queens of Hearts
• THE VICTORIAN REVIVAL
• What fertility aids existed in the medieval era?
• What were schools like in ancient Rome?
• Twenty years ago, two planes were flown into the Twin Towers in New York, prompting worldwide horror and defining the American political agenda for the rest of the decade. But, asks David Reynolds, were the events of 9/11 really a turning point in global
• “This detailed history gives us a new and varied understand­ing of sex as commerce”
• “A towering achievemen­t, and a masterpiec­e that will change the way we think about the war”
• “Historical­ly, marriage was virtually the only career open to the aspiring female”
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