20th Century

A collection of 94 Posts

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Mount Rushmore Under Construction (1932)

Doane Robinson, Gutzon Borglum and the Making of a Monument

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A History of the Human Body with Suzie Edge

Suzie Edge on the stories that come from within

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The Siege of Leningrad

Prit Buttar on the city that would not surrender

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The Siege of Leningrad with Prit Buttar

Prit Buttar on the Nazi siege of Leningrad

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Prelude

Leah Broad introduces us to four women who changed the musical world

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Testimonies: 93, 96, and 130

Will Ashon on how we give shape to our lives, find meaning in the chaos, acknowledge the fragility of our existence

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The Endeavour

Tom Hindle's debut mystery is set on a ship full of suspects, with two detectives. And one killer

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Acts of Love and War

A nation torn apart by war. One woman steps into the crossfire

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I am an Irishman

Ronan McGreevy on the assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP in 1922, triggering the Irish Civil War

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Life and Death on the Eastern Front

Anthony Tucker-Jones and Ian Stewart Spring share rare colour photographs from the Second World War

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The Aberfan Disaster

Sam Knight on the London piano teacher who foretold one of Wales' most horrific industrial disasters

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The Fact of Who I Was

Drawing on the Secret Intelligence Files on Edith Tudor-Hart, this finely worked, evocative and beautifully tense novel – by the granddaughter of Kim Philby – tells the story of the woman behind the Third Man