The History Hour Episodes Available now
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When Eritrea silenced its critics
A crackdown on opposition voices in Eritrea plus Hungary, Nuremberg and Fu Manchu
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The child environmental activist of the 1990s
Stories of the scientists and activists trying to solve the global environmental crisis.
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The Greenham Common women's peace camp
The anti-nuclear weapons protest began in 1981 and lasted nineteen years
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The Pakistani law that jailed rape survivors
In the 1980s, a horrific rape case galvanised the women's rights movement in Pakistan
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Black history: Britain and race
London's first black policeman, the mixed-race World War II babies and a football legend.
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Photographing Brazil's Yanomami
Claudia Andujar spent almost five decades taking unique photos of the remote Amazon tribe
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Kenya: Westgate mall attack
Inside the Westgate attack in Kenya, the murder of Litvinenko, plus Onassis and Kennedy
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The earthquake that devastated Haiti
In 2010 the Haitian capital was hit by a catastrophic earthquake
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9/11 and the war on terror
A special edition on the terrorist attacks on America and how they changed the world.
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Surviving the fall of Saigon
A Vietnamese veteran remembers the fall of south Vietnam , and Kim Il Sung up close