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30/08/2014 GMT
Tanya Beckett brings us this month's round up of history from the British Library in Central London. We meet a former friend of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, a competitor at the first ever Special Olympics and a man who helped build the first ever commercial jet airliner.
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The Soviet Holiday Camp
Maria Kim Espeland went to Artek, a Soviet holiday camp in Crimea, in the 1980s.
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Robert Mugabe - Prime Minister, Zimbabwe
Wilf Mbanga, editor of The Zimbabwean, on his friendship with Robert Mugabe
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The first Special Olympics
Frank Olivo and Anne Burke spoke about their involvement at the first Special Olympics
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