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2017 is the centenary of the Russian Revolution, a political hiatus that helped shape the history of the twentieth century. Historians, artists and politicians have trawled through the momentous events of 1917 in Russia, but how many people appreciate that many of the characters involved then were meeting together and debating their various ideologies in London ten years earlier?

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For Making History, takes Tom Holland to an anonymous street in London’s East End to show him the house where Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin and Rosa Luxembourg amongst others met to discuss the meaning and future of Bolshevism.

2017 is the 800th anniversary of the Charter of the Forest which was in the teeth of civil war and French invasion and helped to secure King John’s infant son, Henry III, on the English throne. It did so by re-establishing the eroded right of commoners to use royal forest at a time when ‘forest’ meant something different to today. The charter limited the king’s power over huge swathes of the country and established rights that people had over their own land. Remarkably, it was on the statute books until the 1970’s.

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and Ìý explained how the charter came about and what its impact was.

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Some, including the environmental lawyer , see the Charter of the Forest as the world’s earliest example of environmental law.

How many of the 75 million people using London’s Heathrow Airport this year fully appreciate thatÌý its 1,227 hectares have consumed a landscape rich in archaeology that goes back to the Neolithic? Tom Holland goes airside to meet archaeologist John Lewis who understands more about the rich past of this concrete jungle having led the excavation before the construction of Terminal 5.

The team at the Ìý have been working on the history of the holiday - no surprise really given that Thomas Cook’s first excursion (by train) left the city back in 1841. Making History shares a few memories of holidays in the 1920’s with its listeners.