May 2014 – Page 4 – Manchester Historian

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.

From the Italians and Irish going to America to the Indian-Pakistani post-partition migrations, Matt Steadman looks at one of the greatest examples of human travel: mass migrations.