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The book that predicted an end to civilisation

The Limits to Growth was published in 1972 and suggested global decline from 2020

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Desmond's: A sitcom that changed Britain

Desmond's was the most successful black sitcom in British TV history

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The battle for the Woman in Gold

How an elderly refugee fought the Austrian government to get back a painting by Klimt

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East Germany's punks

How the communist secret police, the Stasi, tried to crush a youth subculture.

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German atrocities in Poland during WW2

The memories of a survivor of Nazi atrocities in the final months of the war in Europe

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The exodus of Kashmiri Hindus

In January 1990 over 100 000 Hindus fled the Kashmir valley

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The murder of environmentalist Chico Mendes

The killing of the man who'd become a powerful symbol of the fight to save the Amazon

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The Computers for Schools revolution

In 2009, Uruguay became the first country to give every schoolchild a laptop computer.

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The battle for Fallujah

A US Marine's account of the massive operation against Iraqi insurgents in 2004

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Britain's National Trust

How some of the great stately homes of Britain were saved from demolition and decay

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Storming the Stasi HQ

After the fall of the Berlin Wall East German citizens stormed the secret police HQ

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The woman who negotiated peace with a rebel group

The female negotiator who agreed a deal with Muslim rebels in the Philippines.

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The story of George Stinney Jr

How a 14-year-old boy became the youngest person executed in the USA in the 20th century

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The killing of Osama Bin Laden

The US tracked down the al-Qaeda leader to a city in northern Pakistan in 2011

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The mystery of the disappearing frogs

How scientists discovered that a deadly fungus was killing off amphibians.

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How the dodo died out

A flightless bird, the dodo was extinct just decades after being discovered by Europeans

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Silent Spring: A book that changed the world

Silent Spring examined the effect of pesticides on the environment

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The discovery of whalesong

In the 1960s whales were being hunted to extinction.

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The frozen zoo

Since 1975, San Diego Zoo has been deep-freezing cell samples from rare species

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The Way Ahead group: Modernising the Royal Family

The Way Ahead group was set up in the 1990s to make Britain鈥檚 monarchy more relevant

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Reforming India's rape laws

The overhaul of India's rape laws followed the fatal gang rape of a student in Delhi.

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The ancient oak tree that taught the world a lesson

A tree in Kew Gardens survived the storm of 1987 and revolutionised gardening.

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The first self-made female millionaire

Madam C. J. Walker was born to former slaves and created a black beauty business.

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The Treaty of Rome

The document which formed the basis for what is now the European Union was signed in 1957

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London's first black policeman

Norwell Roberts endured years of racist abuse within the Metropolitan police

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Cixi: China's most powerful woman

The Empress Dowager Cixi ruled for 47 years until her death in 1908.

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Witnessing the birth of a new language

In the 1980s deaf children in Nicaragua invented a completely new sign language

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The Native American casino boom in the US

How a small Californian tribe won the right for Indian communities to host gambling.

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The release of Nelson Mandela

The day that South Africa's anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela was freed

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Chairman Mao's Little Red Book

The collected thoughts of China's communist leader that became an unexpected best-seller

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