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David Stirling: SAS hero or fraud?.

A brief history of US abortion law, before and after Roe v Wade

Woman wearing a bikini

Why we should rememberThe launch of the swimsuit that scandalised the world

A man walking past a pile of uncollected rubbish during the Winter of Discontent, 22 September 1978

Q&AWhat was the Winter of Discontent?

An overturned vehicle on tramlines as a blockage to traffic during the General Strike of 1926

A brief history of strike action.

From bohemian Brighton to military Plymouth: the LGBTQ history of four British cities.

New Yorkers outside the Stonewall Inn in June 1969.

Why we should remember…The 1969 raid on the Stonewall Inn.

Marie TharpGround-breaking cartographer.

Franz NopcsaHungarian adventurer and palaeontologist.

Tsiang Ting-fuChinese historian and diplomat.

Episode 6Political tensions in the 1970s and 80s.

Book cover of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four: to the future or to the past?.

An angry crowd of around 400 miners blockade National Coal Board boss Ian McGregor inside a colliery office at Ellinton Colliery, 22 February 1984

Your guide to the miners’ strike of 1984–85

Pioneering women pilots: from ballooning spectacles to flying escapades.

Your guide to George Orwell and his visions of dystopia.

A policeman searches an African-American man, 1970s

Why we should remember…Richard Nixon's war on drugs.

Watergate at 50: the making of an American scandal.

US president Richard Nixon in 1970

After Watergate: the fallout of an American scandal.

Victoria Drummond, Britain's first female marine engineer. Also seen is her ancestral home, Megginch Castle; a Second World War Allied convoy; Mount Etna, which she encountered on one voyage; and a Lloyd’s War Medal for Bravery at Sea, similar to the one that Drummond received in 1941

Victoria Drummond: trailblazing ship's engineer and war hero.

Architecture & hidden Jewish history in Eastern Europe.

Bernstein and Woodward, the journalists who broke the Watergate scandal

Your guide to the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon

Photo of Richard Nixon at a rally in 1968

Richard Nixon: the rise and fall of an American president.

Plastic surgery: transformed by WW1.

The Queen's century of change.

Empire of blood.

Helen Mirren as Elizabeth II in 2006 film 'The Queen'

Screen QueenElizabeth II on film

Queen Elizabeth II, in March 2022 - the year of her platinum jubilee (Photo by Getty Images)

QuizQueen Elizabeth II and her reign

Buzz Aldrin salutes the US flag during the 1969 lunar landing

How has the world changed during the reign of Elizabeth II?.

The birth of insulin: a scientific drama.

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip mark the diamond jubilee in 2012 by watching the Jubilee River Pageant, where a seven-mile flotilla sails past them (Photo by Eddie Mullholland - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

From silver to platinum: a history of Queen Elizabeth II's jubilees.