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Title | Date published | ||
Cap Anamur: A rescue that led to jail | 2019-11-12 | ||
Memories of Wilfred Owen | 2019-11-11 | ||
The concert that rocked the Berlin Wall | 2019-11-08 | ||
The Bhagalpur blindings | 2019-11-07 | ||
Britain's secret propaganda war | 2019-11-06 | ||
A ground-breaking change to treating breast cancer | 2019-11-05 | ||
Iran hostage crisis: the humanitarian delegation | 2019-11-04 | ||
Saving the Great Barrier Reef | 2019-11-01 | ||
'Jane' - the underground abortion service | 2019-10-31 | ||
The Algerians who fought with France | 2019-10-30 | ||
The Paris hotel that hosted Holocaust survivors | 2019-10-29 | ||
Margaret Thatcher's anti-Europe speech | 2019-10-28 | ||
The fall of the Berlin Wall | 2019-10-25 | ||
The Leipzig demonstrations | 2019-10-24 | ||
East German refugees in the Prague embassy | 2019-10-23 | ||
The reburial of a Hungarian hero | 2019-10-22 | ||
The legalisation of Solidarity | 2019-10-21 | ||
Wangari Maathai Nobel Prize-winning environmentalist | 2019-10-18 | ||
Britain's worst nuclear accident | 2019-10-17 | ||
The man who fed the world | 2019-10-16 |