The History Hour Episodes Available now
75 years of Unesco
Why Unesco was set up 75 years ago, in the aftermath of the Second World War.
Film special
Featuring It’s A Wonderful Life, Studio Ghibli and Charlie Chaplin
The birth of Bangladesh
How Bangladesh’s struggle for independence began with a landmark election in Pakistan.
The first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize
The anti-apartheid campaigner Albert Luthuli plus a Neanderthal discovery and beavers.
The fall of Addis Ababa
How rebels toppled Colonel Mengistu of Ethiopia; France's headscarf ban; WW2's V1 bombs
Disability History special
The fight for disability rights in the UK, India, plus Helen Keller and the Invacar
The world's first woman premier
Sri Lanka's woman PM plus the first Arab leader to visit Israel and the women's sex book.
The Guerrilla Girls
Fighting sexism and racism in the 1980s art world, plus Pluto is downgraded
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
The murder of the Israeli leader; Germany's "Occupation Babies"; nude theatre in London
US presidential history special
Inside JFK's election victory, plus Shirley Chisholm, Watergate, and the religious right
