The History Hour Episodes Available now
An environmental history special
A pioneer of climate change science, UK's nuclear accident, the man who fed the world
Black British history
Some landmark moments in British Black history to mark Black History Month in the UK.
The birth of the People's Republic of China
70 years of communist China, we hear from Mao's friends, followers and critics.
Fighting the Islamic State group online
The Mosul historian who battled IS online, plus growing up black under Hitler
The Cambridge spy network
The distinguished British art historian exposed as a former Soviet spy.
Conflict timber in Liberia's civil war
How the timber industry fuelled a brutal civil war in West Africa.
The outbreak of World War Two
Eyewitness account of the Nazi invasion of Poland and the first all-female peacekeepers.
The Kindertransport children
Children fleeing the Nazis, a breakthrough in criminal forensics, plus Nina Simone
The return of the wolf
Restoring the wolf in the US, the liberation of Paris and El Salvador's lost children
The division of Kashmir
How Kashmir was separated, the warnings about 9/11, Carlos the Jackal and Dr Seuss.
