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Articles from Issue 1 (December/January 2017) of BBC World Histories Magazine

Bemused families in Narodychi, Ukraine watch neighbours preparing to leave home shortly after the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, just 50 miles (80km) to the east. The Soviet state proposed to re-house rural inhabitants in badly affected districts, but many preferred to stay despite (or perhaps unaware of the danger of) the high radiation detected by Geiger counters. (Photo by Igor Kostin/Sygma via Getty Images)
20th Century

Eyewitness account: the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster

The Beatles arrive in Japan
20th Century

1966: the Beatles’ tumultuous world tour

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Ancient Greece

Bettany Hughes on the history of Istanbul

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