Issue 21

Articles from issue 21 of BBC World Histories

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A time of change: a history of our understanding of the menopause. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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Experiments in evil: the shocking efforts to understand the atrocities of the Holocaust. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Kurdish fighters in north-west Iran, 1918

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The history of the Kurds in Iraq: "the largest people never to have achieved statehood". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Fridtjof Nansen: Explorer, scientist, writer, humanitarian

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The first great polar expedition: Fridtjof Nansen’s 1888 traverse of the Greenland Ice Sheet. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A man digs a grave in Sarajevo for victims of the war in Bosnia, 1992

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Yugoslavia: why shared Slavic identity couldn’t save an idealised nation from fracture and bloodshed. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A page of the Codex Borbonicus, an Aztec folding book painted around the time of the Spanish invasion

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What can the Aztecs tell us about themselves? The secrets of their 'indigenous annals'. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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'Female husbands': the secret lives of 18th-century transgender pioneers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.