International history

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12 Giant Leaps for Mankind
[4th June 2010]

We asked 12 historians to nominate alternative moments in the past that they consider to be great leaps for mankind. Interviews by Rob Attar

 

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Jesse James: Three Films
[19th April 2010]

Jesse James has been reinvented a number of times for cinema. Mark Glancy evaluates three portrayals of the legendary outlaw.

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Could flu really kill thousands again?
[25th February 2010]

As fears over a global pandemic only just begin to fade, Chris Bowlby compares our present situation to flu outbreaks of the past.

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Castaways
[15th November 2009]

They married into Hawaiian royalty, survived on a diet of sea elephants and were driven to dance with goats. Siân Rees relates the extraordinary stories of men who found themselves shipwrecked and stranded a long, long way from home

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Remembrance in France
[9th November 2009]

As we approach the anniversary of the Armistice that ended hostilities in the First World War, Fiona Reid looks at how the French commemorate the conflict

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A bridge too far
[25th October 2009]

On the 65th anniversary of Operation Market Garden Rob Attar looks back at this daring attempt to bring the Second World War to an early end in the Netherlands

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Making immigration work for Britain: what can we learn from history?
[16th October 2009]

Continuing our History & Policy series, David  Feldman considers how past immigration has been controlled and received, and how it has impacted upon Britain’s welfare system

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Audio interview with Frank van den Bergh
[23rd September 2009]

Rob Attar spoke to Frank van den Bergh the curator of the National Liberation Musuem in the Netherlands about Operation Market Garden, 65 years after the famous airborne assault. Listen to the full interview here.

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The credit crunch: what can we learn from history?
[13th August 2009]

Chris Bowlby talks to two medieval historians and a professor of finance about a 13th-century financial crisis that bore striking similarities to today’s credit crunch

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