BBC History Magazine - 2021-08-05

• Rob Attar Editor
• Katherine Harloe
• Walter Scott’s genius
• The Salem witch trials
• Supersized Georgians
• Hellish workhouses?
• Interview: Alex von Tunzelmann talks about her book exploring the stories behind the world’s most controvers­ial statues
• Explore: Stockport Air Raid Shelters
• Q&A Your history questions answered
• Michael Wood on the return of history festivals
• Anniversar­ies
• Plot twists
• YOUR QUESTIONS, ANSWERED
• The Arabs capture Damascus
• Two cabinet members duel at dawn
• A stark ecological warning riles chemical industry
• SONGS, SEMOLINA AND SANTA CLAUS Two previous inmates reflected on their time in the workhouse as children
• The man in the iron mask
• What was the last battle fought on British soil?
• Georgians
• By 1942, the tentacles of the Holocaust had spread from Europe across north Africa into the Middle East. Gershom Gorenberg explores the largely forgotten brutalisat­ion of Jewish population­s from Morocco to Iraq in the Second World War
• SCOTT’S MASTERPIEC­ES
• THE COLD WAR
• THE SLAVE TRADE
• ROMANTICIS­M
• A love letter to Granada
• Sister act

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