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The History Hour Episodes

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    Women who made history

    US feminist Gloria Steinem, Iranian Nobel-winner Shirin Ebadi, the poet Anna Akhmatova.

  2. Russia under Putin

    How Vladimir Putin rose to power and changed Russia - eyewitnesses recount key moments

  3. LGBT history special

    Memories of the hunt for an HIV cure; Bollywood's lesbian drama; Serbia's trans icon.

  4. The Ukraine crisis: an eyewitness history

    Inside the meeting that ended the USSR and the battle for Ukraine's future

  5. Kazakhstan's new capital

    Kazakhstan’s new capital, the first Emirati female teacher, and a rare celestial event

  6. Fifty years since Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday

    UK soldiers fired on unarmed Catholic protesters, killing 13 in January 1972.

  7. The rise of Boko Haram

    How a small Nigerian Islamist group launched a brutal insurgency

  8. Hitler's Indian ally: Subhas Chandra Bose

    The Indian independence campaigner who sided with Hitler's axis powers in World War Two.

  9. Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane: From professor to freedom fighter

    The liberation leader was assassinated in 1969 in the struggle to end Portuguese rule

  10. A history of games

    The inside story of Pong, Grand Theft Auto, Tetris, Lego and Monopoly

  11. The right to drive in Saudi Arabia

    The Saudi women who used social media to campaign against being banned from the roads.

  12. The birth of Bangladesh

    How a war of independence in 1971 reshaped South Asia and killed hundreds of thousands.

  13. Fighting 'virginity tests' in the Indonesian police

    Virginity tests for women joining the Indonesian police and the battle to end them

  14. Four decades of HIV/Aids

    A history of HIV/Aids over the past 40 years.

  15. The assassination of the Mirabal sisters

    Women activists in the Caribbean, the last case of Smallpox in Europe and assisted dying.

  16. Sudan's October Revolution

    How in 1964 Sudanese civilian protesters first brought down a military regime

  17. The South African football star murdered for being a lesbian

    The killing of Eudy Simelane, spying in East Germany and racism in 1960s British schools

  18. When Eritrea silenced its critics

    A crackdown on opposition voices in Eritrea plus Hungary, Nuremberg and Fu Manchu

  19. The child environmental activist of the 1990s

    Stories of the scientists and activists trying to solve the global environmental crisis.

  20. The Greenham Common women's peace camp

    The anti-nuclear weapons protest began in 1981 and lasted nineteen years

  21. The Pakistani law that jailed rape survivors

    In the 1980s, a horrific rape case galvanised the women's rights movement in Pakistan

  22. Black history: Britain and race

    London's first black policeman, the mixed-race World War II babies and a football legend.

  23. Photographing Brazil's Yanomami

    Claudia Andujar spent almost five decades taking unique photos of the remote Amazon tribe

  24. Kenya: Westgate mall attack

    Inside the Westgate attack in Kenya, the murder of Litvinenko, plus Onassis and Kennedy

  25. The earthquake that devastated Haiti

    In 2010 the Haitian capital was hit by a catastrophic earthquake

  26. 9/11 and the war on terror

    A special edition on the terrorist attacks on America and how they changed the world.

  27. Surviving the fall of Saigon

    A Vietnamese veteran remembers the fall of south Vietnam , and Kim Il Sung up close

  28. My father survived the sinking of the Titanic

    How six Chinese sailors were rescued from the Titanic, but then faced racism in America

  29. US withdrawal: The Fall of Saigon

    The desperate scramble to evacuate the US embassy at the end of the Vietnam war in 1975

  30. The Berlin Wall

    In 1961, communist East Germany began building the wall that symbolised Cold War Europe

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