BBC World Histories Magazine - 03.2020

Issue 21 – March/April 2020

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EDITORIAL

Editor Matt Elton +44 117 300 8645

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Group editor Rob Attar

Group art editor Susanne Frank

Senior deputy art editor Rachel Dickens

Deputy art editor Rosemary Smith

Art editor, special editions Sarah Lambert

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Section editors Ellie Cawthorne,

Jon Bauckham

Picture editor Samantha Nott

Deputy picture editor Katherine Mitchell

Digital editor Emma Mason

Deputy digital editor Elinor Evans

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Podcast producer Ben Youatt

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CONTRIBUTORS

Mar y Beard, Paul Bloomfield, Davide

Bonazzi, Michael Booth, Jerry Brotton,

John Connelly, David Edmonds, Johan

Franzén, Mike Fu, Jon Gertner, Theresa

Grieben, Jen Manion, Susan Mattern,

Richard Overy, Janina Ramirez, Megan

Reddi, David Reynolds, Angel Smith,

Camilla Townsend, Laura Wade

THANKS TO

Robert Blackmore, Chris Burroughs,

Jonny Coward, Fay Glinister,

Joanna Hawkins, Josette Reeves,

Everett Sharp, Sue Wingrove

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Coming up in issue 22

on sale from 23 April 2020

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Sardinian

nationalism

What the

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history reveals

about 21st-century

isolationism

The Californian century

How the US state led decades of

cultural and technological progress

British nuclear testing

The harrowing stories of servicemen who

witnessed atomic experiments in the 1950s