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Back to SearchUS Civil Rights: legacy
Episode 1753
When cries of “Black Lives Matter” rang out across the world in 2020, protestors were echoing the chants of civil rights activists advocating for cha…
2 years, 10 months ago
On the trail of a Nazi war criminal
Episode 1752
In 1949 the notorious Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, known as the “Angel of Death” fled to South America. Three decades later, US lawyer Gerald Posner se…
2 years, 10 months ago
How did empire shape modern Britain?
Episode 1751
Across the 20th century, Britain’s empire reached a peak and then began to disintegrate. Yet, according to historian Charlotte Lydia Riley, the count…
2 years, 10 months ago
Why did medieval Europe become Christian?
Episode 1750
Why did Christianity become so deeply embedded across western Europe in the centuries after the end of the Roman empire? To what extent did the old g…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Mongols: everything you wanted to know
Episode 1749
How brilliant a military leader was Genghis Khan? Could the Mongols have conquered all of Europe? And were they as brutal as they’re often portrayed …
2 years, 10 months ago
The lost world of Dickens’ London
Episode 1748
From grimy back alleys and ghastly churchyards to debtors’ prisons and old curiosity shops, Charles Dickens evoked a vision of Victorian London that’…
2 years, 10 months ago
US Civil Rights: Malcolm X’s assassination
Episode 1747
In 1965, Malcolm X walked out onto the stage of a Harlem ballroom, and was shot dead. In the fifth episode of our series delving into the US Civil Ri…
2 years, 10 months ago
The miners’ strike: a view from the ground
Episode 1746
In March 1984, miners across Britain walked out of the pits and refused to go back. What followed was one of the longest, largest, and most divisive …
2 years, 10 months ago
California’s hidden history of slavery
Episode 1745
Today California is renowned worldwide as a heartland of sun-drenched luxury. But, according to Jean Pfaelzer, the state’s prosperity is in large par…
2 years, 11 months ago
Letters from medieval England
Episode 1744
The Pastons were a prominent aristocratic family from around 1380 to 1750, with stakes in the dynamic politicking of the Tudor and Stuart courts. But…
2 years, 11 months ago