BBC History Magazine - 2021-01-21

• Rob Attar Editor
• Malcolm Smith
• Medieval forgeries
• Discover how education has benefited four people in their unusual history careers
• Interview: Max Adams grapples with the mystery of what may have happened in Britain after the end of the Roman age
• Michael Wood on human rights in the Americas
• Diary: What to watch and listen to this month
• Q&A Your history questions answered
• Behind the news: New US presidents
• New history books reviewed
• Anniversar­ies
• Tablets – helping you be closer to your loved ones...
• A right royal ruckus
• Aztec history wins major book prize
• Baghdad falls to the Mongol hordes
• Japan rains fury on Australia
• The Iranian coup that launched a doomed dynasty
• Love and rockets
• The Smash and Grab Delusion
• TELLTALE ERRORS
• “rhese frightful “ieces of flesh had once been living, breathing people”
• “Press versions of life going on normally were grotesque”
• “neo“le believe that because g am a man of colour, g am a lucky omen”
• “rhis wasn’t war – it was murder”
• THE WHO AND WHY OF SUTTON HOO
• Why do people say “souls” for the number of people onboard?
• Henry the holy
• CULT FIGURES
• City living
• Building back better
• Past imperfect
• A chronicle of killers
• Dead wrong
• Locations and locomotive­s

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