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The History Hour Episodes

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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.

  2. The birth of Bangladesh

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

  3. Fighting 'virginity tests' in the Indonesian police

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

  4. Four decades of HIV/Aids

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

  5. The assassination of the Mirabal sisters

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

  6. Sudan's October Revolution

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

  7. 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

  8. When Eritrea silenced its critics

    A crackdown on opposition voices in Eritrea plus Hungary, Nuremberg and Fu Manchu

  9. The child environmental activist of the 1990s

    Stories of the scientists and activists trying to solve the global environmental crisis.

  10. The Greenham Common women's peace camp

    The anti-nuclear weapons protest began in 1981 and lasted nineteen years

  11. The Pakistani law that jailed rape survivors

    In the 1980s, a horrific rape case galvanised the women's rights movement in Pakistan

  12. Black history: Britain and race

    London's first black policeman, the mixed-race World War II babies and a football legend.

  13. Photographing Brazil's Yanomami

    Claudia Andujar spent almost five decades taking unique photos of the remote Amazon tribe

  14. Kenya: Westgate mall attack

    Inside the Westgate attack in Kenya, the murder of Litvinenko, plus Onassis and Kennedy

  15. The earthquake that devastated Haiti

    In 2010 the Haitian capital was hit by a catastrophic earthquake

  16. 9/11 and the war on terror

    A special edition on the terrorist attacks on America and how they changed the world.

  17. Surviving the fall of Saigon

    A Vietnamese veteran remembers the fall of south Vietnam , and Kim Il Sung up close

  18. My father survived the sinking of the Titanic

    How six Chinese sailors were rescued from the Titanic, but then faced racism in America

  19. US withdrawal: The Fall of Saigon

    The desperate scramble to evacuate the US embassy at the end of the Vietnam war in 1975

  20. The Berlin Wall

    In 1961, communist East Germany began building the wall that symbolised Cold War Europe

  21. Chipko: India鈥檚 tree-hugging women

    The 1970s environmental movement, a child who fled Biafra, an American news pioneer

  22. Japan history special

    The 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the first bullet train, plus other historical moments

  23. Darfur's ethnic war

    Darfur - a child's story, Brazil's first law on domestic violence and Vincent van Gogh.

  24. When the Taliban ruled Kabul

    Life under the Taliban in the 1990s, China's Cultural Revolution, inventing a jet engine

  25. North Korea's 1990s famine

    How hundreds of thousands died of starvation and malnutrition in North Korea

  26. Supernatural sightings

    UFOs in Zimbabwe, the birth of communist China and a wind power pioneer.

  27. LGBT special

    The Stonewall Riot, China's "Cooperative Marriages" and LGBT activism in Ivory Coast

  28. The Confederate flag and America鈥檚 battle over race

    One African-American woman鈥檚 act of defiance after a mass shooting in a black church.

  29. When Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor

    The 1981 attack on the Osirak nuclear reactor, plus the fall of Madrid & Gaza elections

  30. The war on drugs

    US President Nixon declared illegal drugs 'public enemy number one' in June 1971

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