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  1. Killing Time in Imperial Japan

    10/10Christopher Harding discusses Tokyo in the early 20th century.

  2. Creating Modern India

    9/10Preti Taneja on the architectural links between Letchworth Garden City and New Delhi.

  3. England's First European

    8/10Exploring Fynes Moryson's An Itinerary, a European travel book from the early 17th century

  4. The Magic Years

    7/10Medical historian Matthew Smith explores 1970s US psychiatry: a time of hope and promise.

  5. Faith, Fire and the Family

    6/10Catherine Fletcher on the story of her grandfather, a missionary in India.

  6. Russia's Sacred Ruins

    5/10Victoria Donovan explores the dilemmas of post-war reconstruction in Soviet Russia.

  7. The British Writer and the Refugee

    4/10Katherine Cooper on the work by British writers to save colleagues in Europe during WWII.

  8. In the Shadows of Biafra

    3/10New Generation Thinker Louisa Egbunike explores the legacy of the Biafran war.

  9. Alexander the Great's Lost City

    2/10The story of Alexander the Great's lost city, buried beneath Bagram air base, Afghanistan.

  10. Monks, Models and Medieval Time

    1/10Seb Falk discusses the 14th-century monks who studied astronomy.