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Title | Date published | ||
Mrs Thatcher’s ground-breaking Soviet TV interview | 2021-03-31 | ||
When the prisoners ran the prison | 2021-03-30 | ||
Anorexia nervosa | 2021-03-29 | ||
South Africa takes on big pharma | 2021-03-25 | ||
The woman who got America talking about sex | 2021-03-24 | ||
Jamaica’s ‘drug lord’ | 2021-03-23 | ||
The Ulster Workers' Strike | 2021-03-22 | ||
The dirtiest chess match in history | 2021-03-19 | ||
Mars-500 isolation experiment | 2021-03-18 | ||
Alva Myrdal - the woman who made modern Sweden | 2021-03-17 | ||
Paris is Burning | 2021-03-15 | ||
The woman who asked Britain to return the Parthenon marbles | 2021-03-11 | ||
Jane: The underground abortion network | 2021-03-10 | ||
Cixi: China's most powerful woman | 2021-03-09 | ||
The women of Egypt's Arab Spring | 2021-03-08 | ||
Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech | 2021-03-05 | ||
The Sharpeville massacre | 2021-03-04 | ||
When US police dropped explosives on a Philadelphia home | 2021-03-03 | ||
Refugee Island | 2021-03-02 | ||
The world's deepest dive 11km down | 2021-03-01 |