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September 2021
September 2021
Expert history articles from the September 2021 issue of BBC History Magazine
Victorian
Why we should remember...
The pioneering use of ether
Second World War
Holocaust in the Middle East
Victorian
How gruelling was the Victorian workhouse?
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Georgian
Super-sized Georgians: why satirists were fixated with fatness
Stuart
When the devil stalked Salem: the story of the Salem witch trials
Victorian
Unmasking the ‘man in the iron mask’: do we know the identity of the famous prisoner?
General Modern
The classics and racial hatred: how the far right hijacked the ancient world
General ancient history
History hero
Nihal Arthanayake chooses Ashoka the Great (c304–c232 BC)
21st Century
Alex Von Tunzelmann
“Debates about statues are often posed in simplistic primary colours”
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21st Century
Anna Whitelock's Talking Points
Plot twists
Victorian
Emma Dabiri
“Anarcha Westcott should be hailed as a ‘mother of gynaecology’”
21st Century
Michael Wood on history festivals
“The communal retelling of history is magical. Just ask the kids!”
Georgian
Walter Scott: the man who invented Scotland