The History Hour Episodes Episode guide
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An environmental history special
A pioneer of climate change science, UK's nuclear accident, the man who fed the world
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Black British history
Some landmark moments in British Black history to mark Black History Month in the UK.
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The birth of the People's Republic of China
70 years of communist China, we hear from Mao's friends, followers and critics.
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Fighting the Islamic State group online
The Mosul historian who battled IS online, plus growing up black under Hitler
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The Cambridge spy network
The distinguished British art historian exposed as a former Soviet spy.
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Conflict timber in Liberia's civil war
How the timber industry fuelled a brutal civil war in West Africa.
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The outbreak of World War Two
Eyewitness account of the Nazi invasion of Poland and the first all-female peacekeepers.
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The Kindertransport children
Children fleeing the Nazis, a breakthrough in criminal forensics, plus Nina Simone
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The return of the wolf
Restoring the wolf in the US, the liberation of Paris and El Salvador's lost children
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The division of Kashmir
How Kashmir was separated, the warnings about 9/11, Carlos the Jackal and Dr Seuss.
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The mass exodus of Algeria's 'Pieds Noirs'
Why French returnees from the colony of Algeria were ostracised after independence.
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The anti-nuclear protesters who won
The protest which stopped the construction of a nuclear reprocessing plant in Germany.
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When Tunisia led on women's rights
Liberation for Tunisia's women in the 1950s; gay and lesbian fake marriages in China
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Exploring space
To mark the Apollo 11 Moon landing, personal accounts of landmarks in space exploration.
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Kenya's ivory inferno
Highlighting the threat from poaching, solving the common cold, plus China and the tampon
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Surviving Cambodia's 'Killing Fields'
Life under the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s, kidnapped by the Contras and the first Walkman.
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The Stonewall riot
The riot that inspired the gay rights movement; genocide against the Kurds; and Catch-22
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The assassination of Medgar Evers
An American civil rights hero, a Chinese online star and the psychoanalyst CG Jung
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The first anti-psychotic drug
A mental health breakthrough, the end of the Kosovan war, and a trailblazing gay wedding.
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D-Day
Eyewitness accounts of the Normandy landings, Vikings in England and the Little Prince
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Tiananmen Square
Remembering Tiananmen Square, the internet's first social network, and Sesame Street
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Fighting Uganda's anti-gay laws
LBGT activism in Uganda, the start of Greenpeace, Bangladesh acid attacks, and dinosaurs.
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The final days of Sri Lanka's civil war
The last battles of a brutal conflict plus how the Nazis stole children.
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The war on drugs
US efforts to deal with illegal drugs in 1971, plus the rise of Jack Ma in China.
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The Malayan Emergency
Battling a communist insurgency in the 50s, sinking the Belgrano and the "Arctic African"
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The al Yamamah arms deals
The controversial Anglo-Saudi deal, South Africa's historic election, the first "Vegan"
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The Columbine school shooting
Mass murder in the US, the first play on Broadway by a black woman, and space tourism.
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The rise of Hindu nationalism
A religious rally called the Rath Yatra in 1990 championed militant Hinduism in India.
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Abolishing the army
How Costa Rica scrapped its armed forces, plus Maya Angelou and Sweden's famous warship.
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Drama in the British parliament
A political crisis in Britain, ballooning around the world and mindfulness.
