Politics, philosophy and faith
Ideas, people and events that shaped cities, nations and civilisations
Gandhi: Architect of Indian independence
How a shy, mediocre schoolboy went on to shake the British Empire and inspire the world
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Taras Shevchenko: The slave who became a symbol of Ukrainian independence
The life and work of Ukraine's national bard
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Kwame Nkrumah: Ghana’s Pan-African idealist
Assessing the complex legacy of a man who campaigned for a United States of Africa
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The Truman Doctrine: Beginnings of the Cold War
The speech that committed the USA to a 40-year struggle with the Soviet Union
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Margaret Fuller: Early feminist and war correspondent
A brilliant American journalist determined to live her life to the full
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Pleasure and pain: The philosophy of Jeremy Bentham
The radical ideas of the 18th-century legal reformer Jeremy Bentham
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Antarctic Treaty: Protecting the icy continent
Safeguarding peace and wilderness with the Antarctic Treaty
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The Malayan Emergency
One of the earliest Cold War conflicts in Asia
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The census: A snapshot of life
Charting the history of counting and classifying people the world over
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BR Ambedkar: The Dalit hero of India
The life of perhaps the greatest social reformer in 20th-century India
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Abraham Maslow’s psychology of human needs
An influential 20th-century thinker who identified what motivates us
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Comenius, a pioneer of lifelong learning
The life and work of the father of modern education
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The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Investigating how a thriving African American community was razed to the ground
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Valkyries: Fierce women of war
Choosing dead heroes from the battlefield, to fight with Odin in the apocalyptic Ragnarok
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Aesop and the Fables
A black slave wrote 700 animal tales in Ancient Greece. Why are they still best sellers?
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Goethe: The story of colour
How colour affects our mood and thoughts
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In search of the good life: Epicurus and his philosophy
Exploring how an Ancient Greek school of thought has resonated through the ages
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Ibn Khaldun: 14th Century sage
The life and work of a pioneering social scientist and historiographer
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The Russian civil war: How the Soviets rose to power
How the events of the Russian civil war led to Lenin’s communist dictatorship
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The Bhagavad Gita: A guide to spiritual wisdom
The metaphysical and philosophical manual for Hindus and non-Hindus alike
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Rasputin: The Siberian mystic who charmed the Tsar
Untangling the web of contradictions of the spiritual guide to the Romanov dynasty
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How Afghanistan won its freedom from Britain
1919 and the creation of independent Afghanistan
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The Emergence of Modern Turkey
The birth of the secular republic of Turkey from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire
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The Iranian Coup of 1953: Overthrow of a Prime Minister
How British and US intelligence agencies helped oust Iran’s leader Mohammad Mossadeq
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