The History Hour Episodes Available now
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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