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    Jul 16, 2020 1 minute
    Matt Elton

    Welcome to this special issue of BBC World Histories magazine, looking back at some of the best features from the past four years.

    Originally published between, , and whether taken from other parts of the globe. Written by leading figures including Deborah Lipstadt, David Abulafia, Catherine Merridale and Gus Casely-Hayford, they offer thought-provoking takes on the past inside the present. Indeed, some continue to make headlines: , as happened with an effgy of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol this summer, is a subject debated from page 80.

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