Volume 71 Issue 1 January 2021

In the 70 years since History Today was launched, the way we engage with the past has changed, often for the better. But challenges remain. 

The belief that you are what you eat emerged in 19th-century France, where the pleasures of the table were sautéed with philosophy and medicine. 

Muslims from Asia who wished to travel to Mecca on the Hajj were exploited by a trade in human cargo that grew with the opening of the Suez Canal.