All About History - Issue 111, 2021_

Victory and destruction were in the balance WHAT IF DUNKIRK HAD FAILED? TUDOR QUEENS How Henry VIII’s sisters forged their own l ...

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Welcome There are few literary figures as associated with this time of year as Charles Dickens, so it seemed only appropriate to ...

Ma in^ i ma ge: ©^ Get ty^ Im age s Dickens’ London What was life really like in the era of Charles Dickens? The Man Who Knew Ev ...

DEVICE WALLPAPERS Download now at bit.ly/AAH111Gifts Inside the real-life crime and grime that inspired literature’s greatest no ...

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©^ A lam y 4 December 1956 THE MILLION- DOLLAR QUARTET Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash gather at Su ...

©^ A lam y Defining Moments 7 December 1941 AT TACK ON PEARL HARBOR Japan launches a surprise aerial attack against the United S ...

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Written by Jessica Leggett, Jem Duducu, Catherine Curzon INSIDE A CARAVANSERAI SILK ROAD TRAVELLERS SLAVERY AND THE SILK ROAD Ma ...

SPREADING THE FAITH The network of roads doesn’t just move goods around, but ideas too. Christianity is preached to the east, Zo ...

MONGOL EMPIRE Under Genghis Khan and his family the Mongols expand south into China, west into Central Asia and Russia and south ...

Silk Road c.3rd century BCE 19th century CARAVANSERAI C aravanserais were roadside inns that were built along the Silk Road in ...

Illus trat ion by: Ad rian Ma nn THE COURTYARD At the centre of a caravanserai was an open-air courtyard, which usually featured ...

Illus trat ion^ by: Kev in^ M cGi ver n SILK WEAVER China c.3000 BCE – present Anatomy CREATING SILK Weavers would unwind the co ...

T he Silk Road, a sprawling network of  ancient land and maritime trade routes, connected the east to the west and bridged the g ...

Meet ten men and women who journeyed along the Silk Road in the name of diplomacy, trade and travel FAMOUS TRAVELLERS Hall of Fa ...

THE SILK ROAD Ibn Battuta Moroccan, 1304 – c. Ibn Battuta was a Muslim scholar who began his extensive travels when he was aroun ...

When it comes to the history of the Silk Road, a lot of emphasis is placed on what was traded to the West from China. But what l ...