Charlotte Johnson – Page 3 – Manchester Historian

Last month, the chief surgeon suggested that fat is becoming normal in our culture. Laura Robinson looks at the changing notions of fat over time.

Following the death of Tony Benn, who was universally revered, Stephen Fulham looks at the cultural phenomenon that is the death of great statesmen and women.

Missing planes are mysteries that enrapture communities for decades. Stephen Wears looks at some of the most notorious cases from Amelia Earhart’s disappearance to the legend of the Bermuda Triangle.

Xan Atkins gives a potted history of the political events and key figures leading up to and during the system of racial segregation in South Africa between 1948 and 1994.

Sophie Brownlee investigates the extensive period of the Mayan civilisation in Central America which lasted from 2600 BC to the end of the seventeenth century.