CONTENTS FEBRUARY 2023
FEATURES
20 Medieval marvels
Ian Mortimer hails the staggering progress – in everything from medicine to exploration – achieved by our medieval ancestors
29 Histories of fear
Kate Summerscale explores what five phobias reveal about our anxieties though the centuries
36 A golden age for women?
- Marion Turner on what Chaucer’s Wife of Bath can tell us about a time of great change for women
46 How the Holocaust began
James Bulgin on how the German invasion of the Soviet Union triggered a policy of annihilation in eastern Europe
52 Forgotten Tudor voices
- Lucy Wooding profiles eight people whose experiences shed light on the challenges of life in the 16th century
59 The chaotic 17th century
- Jonathan Healey argues that people power drove the unrest that buffeted England in the age of Charles I and Oliver Cromwell
EVERY MONTH
6 Anniversaries
The Conversation
- Britain’s century of strike action
- Michael Wood on the history of the home
- Historical perspectives on the battle over US abortion rights
- Hidden Histories The story of a little-known BBC presenter
- Letters
- Q&A History questions answered
Books
| 66 | Interview: Caroline Dodds Pennock on the Indigenous Americans who visited Europe after 1492 |
| 70 | New history books reviewed |
- Diary: What to see and do this month
- Podcast: The weirdest masterpieces in art history
- Explore: Hughenden Manor
- Holidays: Bangkok, Thailand
- Prize crossword
- My history hero Monica Ali picks Richard Burton
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