The History Hour Episodes Available now
Fighting for Uyghur rights in China
Taking on the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s; plus the Roe v Wade abortion ruling
Algeria's War of Independence
60 years after Algerian independence, accounts of a traumatic “birth of a nation”
Women's rights in Iraq
What is life like for women in Iraq following the US invasion in 2003?
War crimes in the former Yugoslavia
How the conflicts in the Balkans resonate today amid the fighting in Ukraine
The Falkands War
Two contrasting accounts of the conflict from an islander and an Argentine conscript.
Protesting against Putin
A decade ago demonstrators tried to stop the Russian leader tightening his grip on power
Ukrainian history special
The Babi Yar massacre, Ukraine's great famine and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Architecture that made history
From India to London, from skyscrapers to museums, the stories behind global landmarks.
Women who made history
US feminist Gloria Steinem, Iranian Nobel-winner Shirin Ebadi, the poet Anna Akhmatova.
Russia under Putin
How Vladimir Putin rose to power and changed Russia - eyewitnesses recount key moments
