BBC History - UK (2022-01)

CONTENTS

This month in history

7 History news

10 Michael Wood on the future

of the Parthenon Sculptures

12 Anniversaries

16 Why we should remember

Bloody Sunday

20 Letters

36 Q&A Your history questions

answered

Books

74 Interview: Thomas Harding

describes the 1823 Demerara

rebellion and its impact on the

abolitionist movement

78 New history books reviewed

Encounters

86 Diary: What to see and do

this month

94 Explore: Sudeley Castle

in Gloucestershire

96 Prize crossword

98 My history hero

Dame Sarah Gilbert chooses

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22 Queen of spies

Victoria’s intelligence networks helped

her defy her enemies – and her own

governments – as Rory Cormac and

Richard J Aldrich explain

30 A king of fire and light

Louis IX embodied both the horror

and beauty of medieval Europe,

write Matthew Gabriele and

David M Perry

38 1921: a brave new world?

The release of the 1921 census leads

Sarah Hellawell to consider whether

Britain really did “roar” in the 1920s

46 The BBC at 100

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history, David Hendy revisits the

corporation’s earliest broadcasts

50 Enemies of the state

Mark Cornwall on 10 infamous

treason cases and what they said

about the power of the state in Britain

62 Captive of the revolution

Monica Whitlock meets Kim Gordon,

who spent two years imprisoned in a

Beijing hotel room during China’s

Cultural Revolution

70 Actress,

writer and rebel

Helen Batten charts

the amazing life of Emily

Soldene, a star of the

Victorian stage

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