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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.

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

Britain's golden jubilees: from George III to Elizabeth II.

Antony Beevor on the Russian revolution.

Jack Lowden as Siegfried Sassoon in Terence Davies’ feature film Benediction.

First World War

Benediction: a case of Sassoon the man v Sassoon the legend

Episode 5Change & innovation in 60s Britain.

Irish people demonstrate in Downing Street in London in 1921. The partition of Ireland between the six north-eastern counties and the rest of Ireland took place on 3 May 1921 under the Government of Ireland Act 1920

A brief history of the partition of Ireland

Stasi poets: creative writing & the Cold War.

Firemen tackling a blitz fire at St Paul's Cathedral, London

Second World War

WW2 timeline: 20 important dates and milestones you need to know

The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, at dusk

9 places where British astronomy flourished.

Eurovision: a political history.

Coco Chanel in Paris, 1929

Why we should remember…How Chanel No 5 revolutionised the beauty business.

American citizens Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, following their arrest by the FBI 1950. They were convicted of passing infomation to the Soviets and executed in 1953

The secrets and lies of Cold War spies

War in the air: everything you wanted to know.

Dr DA Henderson examines children’s smallpox vaccination scars in Ethiopia

Why we should remember…Target Zero Day.

Despatches on dictators: US reporters in 1930s Europe.

American actress, singer and model Marilyn Monroe

Something's got to giveThe dramatic life of Marilyn Monroe