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The forgotten Iraq War : John Broich explores the Second World War scramble for oil in the Middle East, Georgian ghost hoaxes: Martha McGill explains how Georgian chancers exploited the terror of the supernatural for their own sinister ends...
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When art turns odd
Our podcast editor Ellie Cawthorne discusses a recent episode on the weirdest masterpieces in art history - and what they can tell us about the depth of human imagination
12 February 1554 Lady Jane Grey is executed for treason
The young woman installed as a Protestant alternative to Queen Mary meets a tragic end
Olive's role in the BBC's earliest days deserves to be remembered
WHEN WE CONSIDER THE BBC'S FIRST 100 YEARS, distinguished director generals come to mind, along with famous presenters and favourite programmes. Yet it's likely that you have never heard of the wonderfully named Olive Bottle.
The long fight over abortion rights in the United States
Fifty years ago, the US Supreme Court's landmark Roe v Wade ruling guaranteed access to abortion throughout the United States - a decision that was reversed last summer. ALLISON MCKIBBAN charts the complex, often contradictory currents that have shaped women's reproductive rights in America
Britain's century of strike action
Recent months have seen thousands of workers - including nurses, railway employees and postal staff go on strike around the United Kingdom. RICHARD TOYE explores the nation's history of industrial action, and the extent to which it has been driven by political ideology or practical concerns
13 FEBRUARY 1858 European explorers first glimpse Lake Tanganyika
Burton and Speke seek the source of the river Nile
"Indigenous Americans who travelled across the Atlantic were horrified by inequalities in European society"
Caroline Dodds pennock talks to Ellie Cawthorne about her new book tracing the remarkable stories of Indigenous Americans who voyaged to Europe after 1492
Breast practice
Joanna Wolfarth's new book is a love letter to all women who have cradled an infant close to their breasts.
Liberal views
RICHARD TOYE is intrigued but ultimately unconvinced by a detailed account of the state of British liberal politics in the first years of the 20th century
Centuries of iron
JONATHAN BOFF is impressed by a comprehensive and insightful military history of Germany and its southern neighbours