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| Title | Date published | ||
| The first Tasers | 2019-11-18 | ||
| The first Indian to win Miss World | 2019-11-15 | ||
| The Love Canal disaster | 2019-11-14 | ||
| The demolition of the Babri Masjid | 2019-11-13 | ||
| 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 |