Social history

Police disperse a mob attacking a Hindu temple in Calcutta (now Kolkata) during the violence of Direct Action Day, 1946

Why we should remember… Direct Action Day

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Pod Matthew Kelly WL

Countryside campaigners: four women who fought for our green spaces . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Troops clear damage after the Lynmouth flood disaster of 1952

General History

Britain’s flood disasters: a brief history

A refugee family in a camp in Pakistan after the partition of British India in 1947

Enduring trauma: the legacy of partition

Youths throw stones at the Royal Ulster Constabulary in the Catholic Bogside area

Why we should remember… The battle of the Bogside

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Pod James Vincent WL

General History

Measurement: an unexpected history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Composer and conductor Igor Stravinsky rehearses with the BBC Symphony Orchestra ahead of a concert to be broadcast on the Third Programme, 1958

BBC at 100 The Third Programme: a cultural institution

Historian Hakim Adi. (Photograph by Tim Stubbins)

15 minutes of fame Hakim Adi chooses Alice Kinloch

A British poster dated 1917 designed by Bert Thomas. (Photo by Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo)

A brief history of smoking

England's Daley Thompson during the high jump event of the decathlon at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Emonton, Canada

A brief history of the Commonwealth Games

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Medieval monks: a day in the life . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The presenters of the recently launched BBC Radio 1 assemble for a group photo outside Broadcasting House, 1967. (Photo by Robert Stiggins/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

BBC at 100 Sounds of the Sixties

In a photograph taken at Bishop's Stortford railway station in Hertfordshire, 1972, resettled Ugandan Asians wait for the train that will take them to their new home. (Photo by Alamy)

Fleeing Idi Amin: the long journey to a new life

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Pod Sarah Churchwell WL

Gone with the Wind: how a 1936 novel explains modern America . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles, on display at the British Museum

8 facts about the Elgin Marbles