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In this issue… During the past two years, as Covid-19 has dominated our lives, renewed attention has been paid to pandemics of the past, and in particular the Black Death. In this month’s cover feature, historian Monica H Green draws on the latest scientific research to seek to explain when and how the disease originated […]

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Extraordinary lives of ordinary women

EXTRAORDINARY LIVES OF ORDINARY WOMEN The survivor, the “incurable” and the scapegoat History is too often presented as tales of “great men” – yet the experiences of ordinary women speak eloquently about the reality of lives past. Lucy Worsley introduces three outwardly unremarkable people caught up in pivotal events Accompanies the new four-part series Lucy […]

Books interview: Ronald Hutton

INTERVIEW / RONALD HUTTON “Medieval Christians were capable of imagining goddess-like beings that looked thoroughly pagan” RONALD HUTTON talks to Rhiannon Davies about his new book exploring four female deities who straddled the pagan and Christian worlds in the Middle Ages On the HistoryExtra podcast PROFILE Ronald Hutton is professor of history at the University […]

The Soviet-Afghan War

THE SOVIET-AFGHAN WAR WAR WITHOUT END The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 is widely viewed through the prism of the great Cold War confrontation between east and west. Yet, writes Elisabeth Leake, the occupation also ignited a tinderbox of local grievances that continue to torment the country to this day On 3 August 1978, […]