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“What if?” history books normally annoy me – but History’s People is an exception
Margaret MacMillan’s selection of neglected voices in History’s People reminds us how individual choices and actions come to shape our world.

By Joanna Bourke
15 March
Culture
What we don’t know about the Holocaust
Two histories of the Holocaust reveal the myths and monstrosities of the camps.

By Joanna Bourke
24 September
Culture
This won't hurt a bit: the cultural history of pain
Speculation about the degree to which human beings and animals experienced pain has a long history.

By Joanna Bourke
19 June
The long roots of racial prejudice and American colonialism
Francisco Bethencourt’s book Racisms explores the blood on the leaves left behind by centuries of racial discrimination, including the enduring spectre of Guantánamo Bay.
By Joanna Bourke
23 January
Politics
Emergency funding: an important step toward change
Joanna Bourke describes her relief that Harriet Harman, Minister for Women has announced £1 million
By Joanna Bourke
19 March
World
Rape myths past and present
Popular prejudices estimate about half rape victims are lying, but research shows just 3% of rape al
By Joanna Bourke
10 March
Culture
When killing had to stop
For centuries Europe was a prickly landscape of heavily armed nation states. Now the continent has l
By Joanna Bourke
07 February
Culture
An orgy of inhumanity
The War of the World: history's age of hatred Niall Ferguson Allen Lane, the
By Joanna Bourke
19 June

Culture
Silence in the face of slaughter. The US and Britain have been attacked both for ignoring genocide and for intervening to stop it. After the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, the massacres in the Balkans and the wars in Rwanda, are we any closer to the ri
A Problem from Hell: America and the age of genocide Samantha Power Flamingo, 656pp, £9.99
By Joanna Bourke
21 July

Culture
Willing executioners
The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution Mark Roseman Allen Lane, The
By Joanna Bourke
21 January

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