BBC World Histories Magazine - 03.2020

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GE TT Y^ I MA GE S Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi SS officer who had been charged with organising the mass deportation of Jews to thei ...

Æ AS MILGRAM BEGAN HIS EXPERIMENTS, THERE WAS A DAILY REMINDER OF THE HOLOCAUST IN JERUSALEM – A BALDING MAN IN A GLASS BOOTH Ev ...

AL AM Y the land of his birth. A young Asch moved with his family from Poland to the United States. Tajfel, also Polish-born but ...

the orders of the ‘teacher’ were relayed by phone rather than in person. Overall, taking into account all variations, the majori ...

The Conver- sation “The idea that ar t provokes sex goes right back to the very origin of the western female nude” Mary Beard ta ...

Æ Mary Beard with a statue at the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge, during the filming of Shock of the Nude. “I’ve bee ...

CULTURE The Conversation Matt Elton: What inspired you to make a documentary on the subject of nudity? Mary Beard: My team and I ...

CLA Æ IRE W ITK IN B BC PI CT UR ES /A LA MY Mary Beard at Crawford Art Gallery in Cork. “Why and how do we let some people lo ...

CULTURE The Conversation “No other culture has obsessed about the naked body and its sexuality in the way the west has since the ...

Æ Some of these anxieties are timeless. Others, however, have been reframed in recent years due to the #MeToo debate, gender bi ...

CULTURE The Conversation FR AN M ON KS /B BC Janina Ramirez: I wanted to ask you about three specific artworks that pop up in th ...

GE TT Y^ I MA GE S Absolutely. “All life originates here.” One of the things we explore very briefly in the programme is that, i ...

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