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History
How the Grateful Dead built the internet
Before the the internet took over the world, psychedelic rock band The Grateful...
'There was a real gutsiness about them': How the heiresses...
The rich, glamorous, American women of the gilded age who married into the English...
WWII Mosquito pilot who carried out 50 bombing raids across...
Colin Bell is a regular at the RAF Club in London where he pops in for a G&T and...
'It’s an extremely sexy story': How the legendary tale...
In 11th-Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking...
'It stirred the people to breathless wonder and scalding...
The building of the Sydney Opera House began on 2 March 1959. But when BBC Tonight...
The illegal church at the heart of US history
In the heart of what was once Britain's largest colony in the New World, a "secret"...
A Thousand Blows: How a historic women-only gang menaced...
The all-female Forty Elephants lived by their own shoplifting and pickpocketing...
'It was an escape into excellence': How music saved the...
The Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by Soviet troops...
'My mother sacrificed herself for me': Escape from the...
As the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz-Birkenau's liberation approaches, Simon Gronowski...
Auschwitz survivor: 'You worked until you could work no...
Albrecht Weinberg was a teenager when the Nazis first sent him to do forced labour...
India's pioneering female anthropologist who challenged...
Irawati Karve led a life that stood apart from those around her.
Twenty years on: 'My boat was metres from the shore when...
When the earthquake struck at 06:30 (01:00 GMT), I was on a ferry, headed towards...
Santa Tracker: The slip-up that started a 70-year-old festive...
In early December 1955, the phone rang at an air base in Colorado Springs. The officers...
'As darkness fell, blazing hangars lit up the sky': How...
In December 1950, a BBC cameraman captured the fall of Pyongyang, a defining moment...
How India's first Test tour to Australia almost didn’t...
India's forthcoming cricket tour of Australia continues a historic rivalry that...