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Ben Macintyre “The siege is one of the

WELCOME NOVEMBER 2024

“Imagine the scene. You’re watching the World Snooker

ANNIVERSARIES

DANNY BIRD highlights events that took place in November in history

The opportunistic evolution of Britain’s far right

THE CONVERSATION

“Racism in Britain has a long history – but so does anti-racism”

Many people of African and Caribbean heritage in Britain have suffered racist attacks over the centuries. But, as HAKIM ADI explains, they have also been active and effective in organising their own defence

MICHAEL WOOD ON…

T HE RISE OF A NEW WORLD ORDER

HIDDEN HISTORIES

KAVITA PURI on the troubling history of racist attacks in Britain

LETTERS

LETTER OF THE MONTH The final insult? David

THE TYRANT THE USURPER

RICHARD VS HENRY

“The SAS suddenly became the most famous special forces group in the world”

Ben Macintyre’s new book explores the 1980 Iranian embassy siege and the moment when British special forces stormed the building. He tells us about six days of drama and tension in London

THE MUMMY’S CURSE

...AND OTHER TRUE (AND FALSE) TALES

The other prince in the Tower

The 1499 execution of Edward of Warwick snuffed out the final embers of the Wars of the Roses. Sarah Norton introduces the last male heir to the House of York – and explains why he “had to perish” to secure the crown for Henry VII

Drug-deals, sly-grog and a queen of thieves

A new BBC series tells the stories of female criminals from the 18th to 20th centuries. Their chicanery often earned them great riches, yet, as series consultant Rosalind Crone reveals through six case studies, their schemes didn’t always go to plan…

The Nazis were human – just like us

Denouncing Adolf Hitler as a monstrous aberration is the last thing we should be doing at a moment when democracy is under attack

Q & A

A selection of historical conundrums answered by experts

“Like ancient Greece, India is one of the seedbeds of civilisation”

WILLIAM DALRYMPLE tells Danny Bird why we need a greater understanding of how Indian ideas and culture have shaped global history – a story too often obscured by colonial narratives

The power of knowledge

TECHNOLOGY

ON THE PODCAST

Data caches Deputy editor Matt Elton picks three

The war on nature

ENVIRONMENT

The bridge too far

NIGEL JONES applauds an immersive account of one of the most chastening Allied operations of the Second World War

FROM FACT TO FICTION

Mothers and sons Annie Garthwaite discusses The

Sex, science and superstition

WOMEN

A view to a killing

The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place

Gruesome grown ups

A History of Britain in Ten Enemies

Rags to riches

Liza (Shannon Lavelle) and Ma Hardacre (Julie Graham)

EXHIBITIONS

Victorian Radicals Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Immense bravery

Courageous Polish officer Witold Pilecki in Auschwitz, after

Infamous attack

Onlookers watch emergency services at Brighton’s Grand Hotel

Lives less ordinary

David Olusoga tells the story of Londoners and

Unexpected connection

New Chilean film In Her Place explores the

RADIO HIGHLIGHTS

Scandal, surrealism and the CIA

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