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Latest articles from BBC World Histories Magazine

Vladimir Ilyich Ulianov
20th Century

Vladimir Lenin and his lust for power

A Red Cross worker in the United States, 1918
20th Century

Spanish flu: the virus that changed the world

A 19th-century depiction of HMS Erebus in the ice, by François Etienne Musin. What exactly happened to the ship and its crew remains a mystery. (Picture by Alamy)
Victorian

The Franklin Expedition: what happened on the ill-fated Victorian voyage?

An Athenian red-figure kylix (cup) dating from around 510–500 BC depicts a young pentathlete pulling his older lover towards him for a kiss. In many of the city-states of ancient Greece, sex between a man and a youth was an accepted – even idealised – form of love, its virtues extolled in works by writers including Plato. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
General ancient history

Pride and prejudice: same-sex relations through history

A women drives oxen pulling a loaded wagon train through the Black Hills (in South Dakota or Wyoming) in 1887
Victorian

From the real Calamity Jane to ‘Madam Moustache’: pioneer women of the Wild West

An account of the story of James Allen, whose sex at birth was revealed only by an autopsy conducted after their death
Victorian

‘Female husbands’: the secret lives of 18th-century transgender pioneers

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