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Annie Gray looks back on festive food in the 20th century – from suspect dishes made under rationing to joyful postwar creations

Helen Fry discusses British intelligence officer Thomas Kendrick, who helped swing the Second World War in favour of the Allies

In the final episode in our new series on the raid on Pearl Harbor, Ellie Cawthorne speaks to Robert Lyman about the attack’s immediate aftermath and long term legacy, charting the chaos the Japanese offensive unleashed and tracing events through to th…

Rhiannon Davies speaks to Nadine Akkerman about a beloved – but now widely forgotten – Stuart princess

Richard Bosworth answers listener questions on the authoritarian ideology that emerged in Italy a century ago

Dejan Djokic revisits the brief 1991 war that saw Slovenia secure independence and helped set in motion the collapse of Yugoslavia

From creepy greetings cards to booze-soaked tipsy cakes, Annie Gray guides us through festive feasting in the Victorian era

Mark Mazower explains how the Greeks secured an unlikely victory against the Ottoman empire in their 1820s fight for freedom.

In the latest episode in our new series on the raid on Pearl Harbor, Ellie Cawthorne and Gavin Mortimer chart how the attack unfolded on 7 December 1941, sharing the stories and eyewitness accounts of those involved, from Japanese pilots and US navy pe…

John Callow discusses the tragic case of the Bideford witches, the last women in England to be executed for the crime of witchcraft