The History Hour Episodes Episode guide
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Fifty years since Asians were kicked out of Uganda
A compilation of stories marking 50 years since Idi Amin expelled Asians from Uganda
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The Revolution on Granite
A student protest in Ukraine, the Surkov leaks and the invention of the nicotine patch
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Stories from iconic TV shows from around the world
The history of television from around the world and its enduring impact
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Stories from the abortion fight frontline
Experiences from both sides of the abortion debate plus the story of the Pill
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America鈥檚 first gay election candidate
Jose Sarria's political journey, Smear Tests, Discovery of Higgs Boson
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Hong Kong: 25 years since the handover from British to Chinese rule
The last governor of Hong Kong, a pro democracy campaigner and life in Kowloon Walled City
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Egypt's first democratic Presidential election
Egypt's first democratic election, the murder of Vincent Chin, the UK's first Pride march
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Cambodian genocide trials
Cambodian Genocide trials, 'Napalm Girl' from the Vietnam War, and the Holy Cross dispute
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How Sri Lanka's president survived a suicide bombing
Suicide bombing attack on Sri Lanka's president, Anne Frank's diary and Gabon's forests
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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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Artists who made history
Memories of Picasso, Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe; plus, banned Russian art
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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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The war in Transnistria
Moldova battles Russian-backed separatists; Egypt bread riots; Eyjafjallaj枚kull erupts
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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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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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Women's rights in Iraq
What is life like for women in Iraq following the US invasion in 2003?
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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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The Falkands War
Two contrasting accounts of the conflict from an islander and an Argentine conscript.
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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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Ukrainian history special
The Babi Yar massacre, Ukraine's great famine and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
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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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Women who made history
US feminist Gloria Steinem, Iranian Nobel-winner Shirin Ebadi, the poet Anna Akhmatova.
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Russia under Putin
How Vladimir Putin rose to power and changed Russia - eyewitnesses recount key moments
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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 Ukraine crisis: an eyewitness history
Inside the meeting that ended the USSR and the battle for Ukraine's future
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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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Fifty years since Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday
UK soldiers fired on unarmed Catholic protesters, killing 13 in January 1972.
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The rise of Boko Haram
How a small Nigerian Islamist group launched a brutal insurgency
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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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Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane: From professor to freedom fighter
The liberation leader was assassinated in 1969 in the struggle to end Portuguese rule