The History Hour Episodes Available now

British black history special
The voyage of the Empire Windrush, the battle of Lewisham and the creation of Desmond's

The Mafia and Italian politics
The trial which linked a senior Italian politician to the Mafia plus the birth of Google.

Blackwater killed my son
How US private security guards killed 14 Iraqi civilians; plus Florida's election chaos

Stories of resistance and protest from around the world
Different protest stories from China, Belarus, Kenya, USA and Argentina

Prohibition in India
How the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh banned alcohol in 1995 plus the birth of Reddit

Inventing James Bond
Ian Fleming and the genesis of James Bond and the birth of the Sony Walkman

Margaret Ekpo - Nigeria's feminist pioneer
The woman who fought for Nigerian independence plus the former policeman turned protestor

The siege at Ruby Ridge
The standoff that galvanised the US far-right; plus, growing up with Saddam Hussein.

Beirut's hotel war
Lebanon's civil war comes to Beirut's luxury hotel district, plus the first ventilators

The Second World War in Japan
It鈥檚 75 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on Japan, leading to the end of WW2.