2019-10-01 BBC World Histories Magazine
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Concentration camps: From Dachau to Texas? Why the United States forgot its Hispanic past The truth behind 1984 and The Handmaid ...
Sylvia’s friends remembered her for her kind heart, and her strong desire to help others. Even though she suffered lifelong poor ...
COVER ILLUSTRATION: DAVIDE BONAZZI–SALZMANART. THIS PAGE: GETTY IMAGES/STEVE SAYERS–THE SECRET STUDIO 3 The Second World War beg ...
AL AM Y CONTENTS Features ✪ On the cover COVER ILLUSTRATION BY DAVIDE BONAZZI Families pose with their wagons near the foothills ...
LIN DA N YL IN D/ JA SO ND OD DP HO TO GR AP HY /^ A LE XA ND RA DA O/ CH RI S^ M CA ND RE W THE BRIEFING 6 Viewpoints: Phil Tin ...
View- points Expert opinions on historical issues that touch today’s world y the end of this year, in an unambiguous declara- ti ...
7 Æ ILLUSTRATION BY KATE HAZELL Liberation Army had command of Taiwan, it would throw open China’s strategic options. Geopolitic ...
SA RA H- JA NE FI EL D Continental rift As Brexit approaches, European gazes are fixed on the UK – but in truth the split that r ...
9 The so-called Rhine Divide permeates the shape and priorities of the EU more powerfully than the UK ILLUSTRATION BY KATE HAZEL ...
Anne McElvoy is senior editor at The Economist and presents France and Germany: Divided They Stand for BBC Radio 4, available on ...
ILLUSTRATION BY KATE HAZELL 11 of the central government’s high- handedness. The insurgency against the Indian state that began ...
12 THE BRIEFING History Headlines ORKNEY SCOTLAND Skol’s out Archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be a Viking drin ...
PROKHOROVKA RUSSIA Warning shots Russian officials have been angered by a new view of a key Second World War tank clash. The bat ...
Artistic licence A romanticised 1853 painting shows Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto discovering the Mississippi river in 1541. ...
Æ Tension between Anglo and Hispanic Americans in the US is a worrying phenomenon – but far from a new one. Carrie Gibson explai ...
GE TT Y^ I MA GE S I n 1855, a frustrated young newspaper editor, Francisco P Ramírez, lamented in an editorial for his Los Ange ...
GE Æ TT Y^ I MA GE S Cortés’s exploits fuelled the desires of would-be Conquistadors, some of whom set their sights on Florida, ...
GE TT Y^ I MA GE S Hispanic North America Clash for the colonies A lithograph based on Carl Nebel’s 1851 painting of the 1847 ba ...
Æ St John’s River (near Jacksonville, Florida) among the Timucua people. The French party explored north, stopping on an inlet t ...
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