BBC World Histories Magazine - 03.2020

Secret lives of the 18th-century transgender pioneers Nansen’s daring mission to cross Greenland The nine books you need to read ...

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: STEVE SAYERS–THE SECRET STUDIO/DREAMSTIME 3 Will Brexit mark a new daw ...

AL AM Y CONTENTS Features ✪ On the cover COVER ILLUSTRATION BY DAVIDE BONAZZI Sea ice in a fjord in Greenland. In this issue’s F ...

THE BRIEFING 6 Viewpoint: Michael Booth explores the long roots of tensions in east Asia 10 History Headlines: Discoveries and d ...

e are told that this will be the Asian century, during which China in particular will attain global economic and political supre ...

to death in the Chinese city of Xi’an. Li wasn’t even Japanese – he just happened to be driving a Japanese car. While researchin ...

Is there a note of insincerity, audible only to Koreans and Chinese, that renders Japanese contrition void? the mid-19th century ...

GE TT Y^ I MA GE S Feed- back Last issue, we asked a panel of experts to nominate the leaders they considered to have been the g ...

10 THE BRIEFING History Headlines LAKE VÄTTERN SWEDEN Norse code The inscription on a ninth-century runestone may reveal Viking ...

BAGHLAN PROVINCE AFGHANISTAN Ancient art recovered An ancient sculpture has been recovered, three decades after it was stolen fr ...

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ÆÆ in their own words Views of the indigenous people of central Mexico have long been shaped by accounts written by Spanish inva ...

I n 1579, a son was born to a well-to-do indigenous family living in the town of Amaquemecan, New Spain (encompassing today’s Me ...

Æ AL AM Y/B RI DG EM AN /^ M EA D^ A RC HI VE S^ – LI BR AR Y^ O F^ C ON GR ES S Æ Mixed media The Mass of St Gregory, an artwor ...

The church had been built on the site of the temple pyramid, where prisoners had occasionally been sacrificed to gain the favour ...

AL Æ AM Y generations, ravaged by exposure to European diseases, that many people – Spanish and indigenous alike – believed that ...

Legacy, lineage and laughter Indigenous sources reveal that Aztec life wasn’t as unfamiliar as we might expect Pre-conquest Azte ...

the writing of their forebears’ histories, based on the old sources they still had at their disposal. For years afterwards their ...

How has the way in which we understand the menopause evolved over time? Susan P Mattern investigates ...