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An African perspective on the history of Africa

Africa's story has long been presented in western narratives as one that only 'began' with the...

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WW2's greatest battles | Trailer

Did Allied victory in the Second World War really hinge on the battle of the Atlantic? What made...

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WW2's greatest battles | 1. Battle of Britain

In the summer of 1940, the skies over Britain filled with the sounds as of engines and gunfire,...

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How Kissinger transformed the Cold War

Henry Kissinger, who died in November 2023 at the age of 100, was one of the most significant,...

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Lord Byron: life of the week

Famously branded "mad, bad and dangerous to know", Lord Byron captured the imagination – and...

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Horrible Histories: 15 years of death, poo and talking rats

Since it first hit TV screens back in 2009, Horrible Histories has brought Terry Deary and Martin...

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Medieval medicine: everything you wanted to know

What would a medieval first aid kit have contained? What were the era's strangest cures? And is...

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Death & hubris in west Africa: how two British expeditions met with disaster

In the early 19th century, two different British expeditions headed into the interior of West...

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Conspiracy Revisited: The JFK assassination – Oswald’s second murder

In part 2 of a special bonus episode of our Conspiracy series, Rob Attar and Gerald Posner delve...

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Clotilda: the last slave ship to America

The transatlantic slave trade was formally abolished in both Britain and the US in 1807 and 1808...

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History behind the headlines: the Bengal famine

In the latest episode of History Behind the Headlines, Hannah Skoda and Rana Mitter are joined by...

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Spying in the Troubles: the murky world of double agents in Northern Ireland

The Troubles in Northern Ireland was a difficult, bloody period, which lasted for almost 30...

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Welsh mythology: everything you wanted to know

What do white horses symbolise in Welsh mythology? What is the Mabinogion? Was King Arthur from...

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Tying the knot: 500 years of wedded bliss and marital misery

Over the last 500 years, countless people in England and Wales have decided to tie the knot. But...

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Conspiracy Revisited: The JFK assassination – 95 per cent certain?

The killing of President John F Kennedy in Dallas in November 1963 is one of the defining events...

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The British empire's divisive legacy

Sathnam Sanghera’s bestselling 2021 book Empireland catapulted the author into the eye of a media...

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Saladin: life of the week

The name of medieval leader and military commander Saladin has gone down in history for unifying...

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Back in the USSR: the Soviet Sixties

Within just a few years of Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union had sent the first artificial...

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Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: everything you wanted to know

Were the Anglo-Saxons always called the Anglo-Saxons? What did it take to make or break an early...

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Dinosaurs: a Victorian obsession

Through the 19th century, people began to find strange and spectacular bones of "impossible...

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