September 2021

Expert history articles from the September 2021 issue of BBC History Magazine

Victorian

How gruelling was the Victorian workhouse?

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Why we should remember...The pioneering use of ether. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of Tunisian Jews are rounded up and marched through the streets of Tunis carrying shovels in December 1942

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Holocaust in the Middle East. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Daniel Lambert in a 19th-century painting

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Super-sized Georgians: why satirists were fixated with fatness. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A scene from the Salem witch trials, depicted in a 19th-century lithograph. How two girls’ accusations of witchcraft escalated into one of the darkest episodes in early American history has long puzzled historians. (Image by Alamy)

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When the devil stalked Salem: the story of the Salem witch trials

Illustration of the man in the iron mask standing by the window of his cell and guarded by two musketeers

Victorian

Unmasking the 'man in the iron mask': do we know the identity of the famous prisoner?

Adolf Hitler stands with his back to a statue of Discobolos, the Discus Thrower

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The classics and racial hatred: how the far right hijacked the ancient world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A bust of Ashoka the Great

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History heroNihal Arthanayake chooses Ashoka the Great (c304–c232 BC). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Alex Von Tunzelmann“Debates about statues are often posed in simplistic primary colours”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Anna Whitelock's Talking PointsPlot twists. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Emma Dabiri“Anarcha Westcott should be hailed as a ‘mother of gynaecology’”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood on history festivals“The communal retelling of history is magical. Just ask the kids!”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Walter Scott: an engraving after a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence of the Scottish poet and novelist Sir Walter Scott

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Walter Scott: the man who invented Scotland. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.