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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

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Sudan's October Revolution

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

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The assassination of the Mirabal sisters

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

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Four decades of HIV/Aids

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

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Fighting 'virginity tests' in the Indonesian police

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

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The birth of Bangladesh

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

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The right to drive in Saudi Arabia

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

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A history of games

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

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Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane: From professor to freedom fighter

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

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Hitler's Indian ally: Subhas Chandra Bose

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

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The rise of Boko Haram

How a small Nigerian Islamist group launched a brutal insurgency

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Fifty years since Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday

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

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Kazakhstan's new capital

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

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The Ukraine crisis: an eyewitness history

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

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LGBT history special

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

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The 2014 annexation of Crimea

How Russia seized Crimea in 2014; the death of Trayvon Martin; Nigeria's film industry.

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Russia under Putin

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

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Women who made history

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

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Architecture that made history

From India to London, from skyscrapers to museums, the stories behind global landmarks.

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Ukrainian history special

The Babi Yar massacre, Ukraine's great famine and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster

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Protesting against Putin

A decade ago demonstrators tried to stop the Russian leader tightening his grip on power

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The Falkands War

Two contrasting accounts of the conflict from an islander and an Argentine conscript.

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War crimes in the former Yugoslavia

How the conflicts in the Balkans resonate today amid the fighting in Ukraine

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Women's rights in Iraq

What is life like for women in Iraq following the US invasion in 2003?

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Algeria's War of Independence

60 years after Algerian independence, accounts of a traumatic 鈥渂irth of a nation鈥�

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Fighting for Uyghur rights in China

Taking on the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s; plus the Roe v Wade abortion ruling

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The war in Transnistria

Moldova battles Russian-backed separatists; Egypt bread riots; Eyjafjallaj枚kull erupts

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The Marcos regime in the Philippines

The rule of Ferdinand Marcos Senior; Shanghai during World War Two; McDonald's in Russia

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Artists who made history

Memories of Picasso, Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe; plus, banned Russian art

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The Syrian civil war

Chemical weapons attack in Syria, lynching outlawed in America and the Queen's coronation

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