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Eyewitness accounts of the fall of Nazi Germany and the end of the Second World War in Europe. Using unique interviews from the BBC's archives we bri…
5 years, 8 months ago
The 1957 flu pandemic
A new strain of flu emerged in East Asia in 1957 and spread all over the world. Known at the time as “Asian flu”, it killed more than a million peopl…
5 years, 8 months ago
The last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade
The grandson of the last surviving African-born US slave, plus the story behind the portable hospital breathing ventilator that was a precursor to th…
5 years, 8 months ago
Apollo 13: The drama that gripped the world
50 years since the Apollo 13 mission, how millions of TV viewers followed the famous rescue of the three NASA astronauts. Also, the women who led the…
5 years, 8 months ago
How technology revolutionised our lives
In a special edition of the History Hour, Max Pearson looks back at some of the major technological milestones of recent years. We hear about the Cal…
5 years, 9 months ago
Women in the law
Trailblazing British lawyer Rose Heilbron was the first female judge at London's famous Old Bailey criminal court. Her daughter Hillary Heilbron QC r…
5 years, 9 months ago
The AIDS memorial quilt - a patchwork of loss
How an LGBTQ+ activist decided to commemorate friends who had died of AIDS with a quilt, plus sequencing the 1918 flu virus, five years of war in Yem…
5 years, 9 months ago
The launch of the Hubble Space Telescope
In 1990, NASA launched the historic mission which put into orbit the Hubble Space Telescope. The orbiting observatory has revolutionized astronomy an…
5 years, 9 months ago
The 1918 'Spanish' flu pandemic
A special edition looking at how the world has battled deadly viruses over the past 100 years, We have eyewitness accounts of the 1918 flu, and the r…
5 years, 9 months ago
The history of the Volkswagen Beetle
How the British army helped rebuild the German car industry after WW2, plus the fight to ban leaded petrol, psychiatry as punishment in the USSR, str…
5 years, 10 months ago