Issue 3

Articles from Issue 3 (April/May 2017) of BBC World Histories Magazine

United States and Nato flags fly above US Air Force fighter jets in Lithuania

Is the future of Nato under threat?

Nikita Khrushchev visits President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1964

Snuffed out democracies and poisoned toothpaste: how the Cold War wreaked havoc in post-colonial Africa

Illustration representing various empires across history

General ancient history

Have empires ever been a force for good?

Portrait of Ide B Wells

Ida B Wells: civil rights activist and scourge of lynch mobs

Armoured cars unloaded in Shanghai in 1927

China’s public image war

Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev looking disappointed frustrated

The 1986 Reykjavík Summit: when hopes for nuclear peace were dashed

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An indigenous Aymara woman selling herbs at La Paz's Witches' Market

Explore La Paz, Bolivia: the history of the turbulent city of peace . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Pamir Mountains - know as Bam-i-dunya, 'Roof of the World'

In the footsteps of Alexander Gardner, a Victorian adventurer who travelled to the Hindu Kush

Armed Apache Warriors, Geronimo's Camp

The fight for the American west: how myth obscures reality

Government troops patrol a village during the Salvadoran Civil War

The end of El Salvador’s civil war

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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Christopher de Bellaigue in conversation

The Islamic Enlightenment: Christopher de Bellaigue and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in conversation . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.