Issue 22

Articles from issue 22 of BBC World Histories

Melisende of Jerusalem

Melisende of Jerusalem: the queen of a crusader kingdom

Scientists monitor control panels aboard HMS Campania during the countdown to the test of the first British atomic bomb in the Montebello Islands off north-west Australia on 3 October 1952. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Britain’s nuclear past: the fallout from the High Explosive Research programme

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Protesters demonstrate against a US military base at Santo Stefano in 2005

Sardinia: the legacy of the notorious shepherd-bandits of the mountains . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

What have the Romans done for us? (Illustration by Davide Bonazzi)

The big question: what have the Romans ever done for us?

A 10th-century silver coin minted in a Danish settlement

The global millennium: how the year AD 1000 was more globalised than we might think