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Latest articles from BBC World Histories Magazine

An illustration showing a woman 'Arib al-Ma’muniyya, playing an instrument while four men listen. A chess board is in the foreground
Medieval

‘Arib al-Ma’muniyya: the enslaved medieval woman who sang her way to wealth

A 'teacher' in Milgram's study is instructed to administer an electric shock to a 'learner'.
20th Century

Experiments in evil: the shocking efforts to understand the atrocities of the Holocaust

US secretary of state William Seward (seated left) signs the agreement to buy Alaska from Russia in 1867
20th Century

America’s hidden empire: the USA’s forgotten imperial expansion

Japanese boats approaching a 'black ship' of US Commodore Matthew C Perry. His arrival in Japan in 1853 forcibly introduced the modern west to the semi-self-isolated island nation (Universal History Archive/Getty Images)
20th Century

From Meiji to modernity: how Japan reinvented itself through the 20th century

Ornate water gardens of the ancient fortress of Sigiriya in Sri Lanka
General ancient history

From Nan Madol to Karakorum: 7 cities that history forgot

Statue of Ibn Battuta at the Islamic culture center, Quanzhou, Fujian, China
Medieval

Ibn Battuta: the most famous traveller of the medieval Arab world

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