Social history

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

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Pod Stephen Tuffnell WL

Gold rushes: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jesus is shown cleansing ten lepers in a scene from the Gospel According to Luke, illustrated in an 11th-century manuscript

General History

Leprosy How has the disease been perceived and treated through history?

David Attenborough with mountain gorillas in Rwanda, in a famous scene from 1979’s Life on Earth

BBC at 100 The rise of natural history television and David Attenborough

Oscar Wilde with Lord Alfred Douglas in 1893

General History

From Oscar Wilde to David Irving: 9 landmark libel & defamation cases through history

African-American double act Buck and Bubbles (Ford L Washington and John W Sublett) were part of a coterie of entertainers of colour broadcast on the BBC in the 1930s (Photo by UPI/Bettmann via Getty Images)

BBC at 100 Mirroring Multicultural Britain

Geometric pavers, colourful doors and gingerbread trim on a pair of Victorian terrace houses

General History

Snuffers, scrapers and murder-holes: walking through the history of the front door

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Pod Anwesha Roy WL

The partition of India: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Emma Smith WL

General History

Powerful pages: the beguiling history of books . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

c1400 farmer ploughing a field.

6 of the most catastrophic weather events in British history

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Pod Bill Sillar WL

The Inca empire: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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First World War

Kavita Puri "Many south Asian diasporic families don’t know of their First World War links"

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Pod Phil Tinline WL

Britain’s century of political nightmares . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.