BBC World Histories - 10.2019 - 11.2019
Æ GETTY IMAGES Riding high in a man’s world Self-styled scout, performer and frontierwoman Martha Jane Cannary, better known as ...
GETTY IMAGES/ALAMY Ploughing a lonely furrow A family farm in Custer County, Nebraska, c1885. Between 1862, when the Homestead A ...
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 THE PARANOIA, THAT ORWELL ENCOUNTERED IN THE SPANISH CIVIL ABOUT TOTALITARIAN METHODS Man of steel Soviet leader Josef Stalin. ...
George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair was born in Motihari, north-east India on 25 June 1903, and grew up in England. After graduating ...
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 DURING THE 1940S, ORWELL BELIEVED WAS DROWNING 5 Art of darkness Hungarian-British author Arthur Koestle ...
GETTY IMAGES Æ obsession with data boom alongside the ability to convincingly doctor documents, statistics and photographs. In T ...
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 ...
CULTURE The Conversation Matt Elton: For people who missed the first season of As Others See Us, can you explain what the series ...
Æ they think about Britain. But what also emerges is that people from all around the world are very surprised by the extent to w ...
CULTURE The Conversation GETTY IMAGES “In Spain, Britain’s constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy were seen as the ...
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