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Issue 21
Issue 21
Articles from issue 21 of BBC World Histories
20th Century
Experiments in evil: the shocking efforts to understand the atrocities of the Holocaust
20th Century
A time of change: a history of our understanding of the menopause
20th Century
The history of the Kurds in Iraq: “the largest people never to have achieved statehood”
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Victorian
The first great polar expedition: Fridtjof Nansen’s 1888 traverse of the Greenland Ice Sheet
20th Century
Yugoslavia: why shared Slavic identity couldn’t save an idealised nation from fracture and bloodshed
Medieval
What can the Aztecs tell us about themselves? The secrets of their ‘indigenous annals’
Georgian
‘Female husbands’: the secret lives of 18th-century transgender pioneers
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