August 2019 Issue Helen Bynum Skin & Bones The Secret Life of Bones: Their Origins, Evolution & Fate By Brian Switek The Remarkable Life of the Skin: An Intimate Journey Across Our Surface By Monty Lyman LR
October 2018 Issue Wendy Moore Liquid of Life Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood By Rose George LR
November 1996 Issue Anthony Clare Romantic on the Loose The Island of the Colour-Blind By Oliver Sacks
February 2017 Issue John Sutherland Body Language Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum By Kathryn Hughes LR
November 2016 Issue Wendy Moore Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair By Emma Tarlo
July 2012 Issue Lewis Wolpert Jolt to the System The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body By Frances Ashcroft LR
April 2013 Issue Christopher Hart The Ways of All Flesh Anatomies: The Human Body, Its Parts and the Stories They Tell By Hugh Aldersey-Williams
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In the nine centuries since his death, El Cid has been presented as a prototypical crusader, a paragon of religious toleration and the progenitor of a united Spain.
David Abulafia goes in search of the real El Cid.
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