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Original rogue heroes of the SAS.

An early Peace People march in Belfast’s Woodvale Park

What was the Peace People movement in Northern Ireland?

Is Eastern Europe disappearing?

Joya Chatterji, emeritus professor in the history of modern south Asia at the University of Cambridge (Photo by Abhishek Bali)

Joya Chatterji on 20th-century south Asia“The nation is a very novel idea, and imposing it on millions of people is hard work”

The forgotten history of Windrush.

US Civil rights: fighting for freedom | A HistoryExtra podcast series.

Two police officers take off a man in a police car during the Notting Hill race riots, London, UK, 2 September 1958.

How did the US civil rights movement influence Britain?.

Protesters in Washington DC with placards

The long road to racial equality.

James Lawson hosting a press conference in Alabama

Who were the key figures of the civil rights movement?

A jujitsu-trained suffragette bodyguard.

Civil Rights themed week banner

US civil rights movement5 landmark events.

The NHS: everything you wanted to know.

What was Albert Einstein's involvement in the creation of the atomic bomb?.

OppenheimerIs Nolan perpetuating a historical myth?.

Episode 6Legacy.

Episode 5Malcolm X’s assassination.

Episode 4The 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Episode 3The March on Washington.

Episode 2The Montgomery bus boycott.

Episode 1The lynching of Emmett Till.

A ring of poisoners: Hungary’s most notorious murders.

Still from Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), directed by Steven Spielberg (Photo by Allstar Picture Library Limited/Alamy Stock Photo)

“Nasa has finally been dragged back into the UFO debate”: David Clarke on the history of flying saucers.

UFO sightings: an otherworldly history.

A view of the devastation caused by the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima in Japan on 6 August 1945, a bombed-out building in the foreground

Second World War

What happened to Hiroshima after it was bombed in 1945? How many people died?

Q&AHow did J Robert Oppenheimer react to the first nuclear weapons test?.

A photograph of Albert Einstein looking into the camera

Albert Einstein: facts about his life, death, education and work

Oppenheimer: “destroyer of worlds”.

Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, seen in 1975, would have been the leading candidate to be the first person to step on the Moon had the Soviets landed before the US (Photo by Space Frontiers/Getty Images)

What if...The Soviets had landed on the Moon first and won the Space Race?.

A range of Barbies at a New York toy fair, 2019

Barbie: a forward-thinking and a behind-the-times image of womanhood.

The newly-completed Central Criminal Court in the City of London, known as the Old Bailey.

Historical Cold CasesThe Murder Of ‘Madame X’.