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    Professor Matthew Restall tackles listener questions and popular search queries about the central American civilisation. (Image by Getty Images)
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    John Withington discusses history’s most notorious political killings – from the first known assassination to the plots to kill Franz Ferdinand and JFK. (Image by Getty Images)
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    In this lecture, Michael Wood uses the stories of five individuals from across the centuries to cast light on China’s rich and varied history
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    An Athenian red-figure kylix (cup) dating from around 510–500 BC depicts a young pentathlete pulling his older lover towards him for a kiss. In many of the city-states of ancient Greece, sex between a man and a youth was an accepted – even idealised – form of love, its virtues extolled in works by writers including Plato. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
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    Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley responds to listener questions about everyday life in ancient Egypt, from governance to dental care and cat mummies. (Image by Getty Images)
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    Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones responds to listener questions and popular internet search queries about one of the dominant powers of the ancient world, the Persian empire. (Image by Getty Images)
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    The voices of China: 5 perspectives on an extraordinary past

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    Cundill Prize-winner Camilla Townsend on global history

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