2019-10-01 BBC World Histories Magazine
Women of the American West I n 1854, a card sharp from the east of the United States, going by the name Dumont – possibly from N ...
AL Æ AM Y Women stretched the limits of convention, changing their costume, habits and daily activities to fit the needs of the ...
GE TT Y^ I MA GE S distribution, could receive title to 160 acres of land as heads of household as long as they were over 21, pa ...
Æ GE TT Y^ I MA GE S Riding high in a man’s world Self-styled scout, performer and frontierwoman Martha Jane Cannary, better kno ...
GE TT Y^ IM AG ES /A LA MY Ploughing a lonely furrow A family farm in Custer County, Nebraska, c1885. Between 1862, when the Hom ...
A pin celebrates the centenary of the birth of suffragist leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The agency of women in the West gave im ...
T he tragic and brutal slave trade is a well-known facet of African history. But many other stories of Afri- cans outside that c ...
ILLUSTRATION BY LYNN HATZIUS 65 An African samurai The tall, strong African man who acquired the name Yasuke in Japan was at fir ...
66 ILLUSTRATION BY BEN JONES ...
Æ From Stalinist Russia to the Spanish Civil War, the 20th century offered George Orwell a huge array of material for his dystop ...
n 21 August 1936, a minor Bolshevik official named ES Holtzman told a Russian court that he had been involved in a Trotsk yist p ...
Æ T H E P A R A N O IA ,^ T H A T O R W E L L E N C O U N T E R E D I N T H E S P A N IS H C IV IL A B O U T T O TA L IT A R IA ...
Georg e^ Orw ell Eric^ Arthur^ Bl air^ was^ born^ in Motihari,^ north-east^ In dia^ on^25 June 1903 ,^ and^ grew^ up^ in^ Eng la ...
Æ novel, 2+2=5 is obscenely false, like saying black is white or up is down – but in Stalin’s Russia it decorated billboards. Th ...
The history behind 1984 DU RIN G^ T HE 19 40 S,^ OR WE LL BE LIE VE D^ WA S^ D RO WN ING 5 Art of darkness Hungarian-British aut ...
GE TT Y^ I MA GE S Æ obsession with data boom alongside the ability to convincingly doctor documents, statistics and photographs ...
Dark mirrors Orwell wasn’t alone in taking inspiration from history for his writing. Matt Elton explores five more classic dysto ...
Kallocain Karin Boye This 1940 Swedish novel was written midway between Huxley’s and Orwell’s works, and mixes the ‘drug dystopi ...
The Conver- sation “A consistent element of Britain’s image has been the lonely fighter standing against foreign tyranny” Neil M ...
Æ Neil MacGregor photographed in London. “It seemed a good juncture, as Britain sets to leave the EU and operate alone on the wo ...
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