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Welcome
Welcome to this special issue of BBC World Histories magazine, following in the footsteps of some of history’s greatest pioneers. Combining features originally published between 2016 and 2019 with new pieces, the articles collected here offer the cha
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Charles Darwin Naturalist, Geologist, Pioneering Thinker
Charles Darwin (1809–82) was born in Shrewsbury, son of a doctor and grandson of Enlightenment thinker Erasmus Darwin. His interest in natural history having been nurtured during studies at Edinburgh and Cambridge Universities, in 1831 he sailed as n
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Pytheas Of Massalia: Explorer, Geographer, Adventurer
We know almost no hard facts about Pytheas (c350–c285 BC). He is believed to have been born in the early to mid-fourth century BC in Massalia (now Marseille), on the Mediterranean coast of France, which at the time was a Greek colony. The Greek histo

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