BBC World Histories Magazine - 03.2020

XX XX X SHORE THING This striking 19th-century bala (Mandinka xylophone) is among the highlights of a new exhibition exploring t ...

THE ART OF EQUALITY New BBC Radio 4 series Equal As We Are explores fiction from the past to find out what it can tell us about ...

BB C/ AL AM Y/G ET TY LIFE UNDER EVIL What was everyday life like for ordinary Germans during Nazi rule? Depictions in films, bo ...

84 WORDS PAUL BLOOMFIELD & MATT ELTON Strange Antics: A History of Seduction by Clement Knox William Collins, out now Have 2 ...

Issue 21 – March/April 2020 BBC World Histories is published by Immediate Media Company Bristol Limited under licence from BBC S ...

AL AM Y Bhaktapur Nepal Wonders of the World ...

Window seat of power The intricately carved wooden frames of the 55 Window Palace gaze out over Bhaktapur’s Durbar (Palace) Squa ...

JOURNEYS Wonders of the World TH IS^ PA GE :^ G ET TY IM AG ES /R OB ER T^ H AR DI NG FA CIN G^ PA GE :^ A LA MY /R OB ER T^ H A ...

Paul Bloomfield is a travel and heritage writer and photographer Animal attraction A pair of amorous pachyderms are depicted in ...

Jon Gertner tracks the 19th-century Norwegian polar pioneer’s snowshoe prints across the vast white wilderness of the world’s la ...

AL AM Y The vast sheet of ice cladding central Greenland spans some 660,000 square miles and is riven with treacherous crevasses ...

JOURNEYS In the footsteps of Nansen’s traverse of the Greenland Ice Sheet n 17 July 1888, the young Norwegian scientist Fridt- j ...

93 Æ ILLUSTRATION BY THERESA GRIEBEN 17 July 1888 S ome 10 miles east of Greenland, Nansen and five companions disembark from th ...

Nansen realised that the situation was becoming dire: if the men were pulled even farther out into the north Atlantic, they woul ...

Æ Expedition member Otto Sverdrup, whose maritime expertise was invaluable in the construction of a boat to reach Godthaab at th ...

JOURNEYS In the footsteps of Nansen’s traverse of the Greenland Ice Sheet AL AM Y/A WL /B RI DG EM AN Icebergs and pack ice were ...

Jon Gertner is a journalist and historian. His latest book is The Ice at the End of the World (Icon, 2019) had plummeted lower s ...

PARTING SHOT CH IEN C HI CH AN G^ – M AG NU M^ PH OT OS Adherents in fearsome masks throng the streets of Xingang, Taiwan, dur ...

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