Issue 9

Articles from Issue 9 (April/May 2018) of BBC World Histories Magazine

Illustration by Davide Bonazzi

Did the Age of Exploration bring more harm than good?

James Cook, commander of HMS 'Endeavour', meets Tahitians in an 18th-century engravings. The ship's naturalist Joseph Banks declared the Polynesian island

How the arrival of Europeans rocked the native cultures of Tahiti and Australia

A cable car on San Francisco's Hyde Street. The network, established in the 1870s,is an ideal way to explore the city (Stefano Politi Markovina / Getty Images)

San Francisco: the history of the Golden City by the bay

A badge featuring American civil rights activist Martin Luther King

The global legacy of Martin Luther King