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The History Hour Episodes

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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

  2. Cambodian genocide trials

    Cambodian Genocide trials, 'Napalm Girl' from the Vietnam War, and the Holy Cross dispute

  3. 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

  4. The Syrian civil war

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

  5. Artists who made history

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

  6. The Marcos regime in the Philippines

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

  7. The war in Transnistria

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

  8. Fighting for Uyghur rights in China

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

  9. Algeria's War of Independence

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

  10. Women's rights in Iraq

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

  11. War crimes in the former Yugoslavia

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

  12. The Falkands War

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

  13. Protesting against Putin

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

  14. Ukrainian history special

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

  15. Architecture that made history

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

  16. Women who made history

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

  17. Russia under Putin

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

  18. LGBT history special

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

  19. The Ukraine crisis: an eyewitness history

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

  20. Kazakhstan's new capital

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

  21. Fifty years since Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday

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

  22. The rise of Boko Haram

    How a small Nigerian Islamist group launched a brutal insurgency

  23. Hitler's Indian ally: Subhas Chandra Bose

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

  24. Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane: From professor to freedom fighter

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

  25. A history of games

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

  26. The right to drive in Saudi Arabia

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

  27. The birth of Bangladesh

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

  28. Fighting 'virginity tests' in the Indonesian police

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

  29. Four decades of HIV/Aids

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

  30. 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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