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How the cult of personality around this German WWI figurehead helped usher in Hitler.
The evolution of copyright.
The Austrian-Jewish physicist who, in 1938, solved the question of nuclear fission.
How Korea embraced modernisation at the end of the 19th Century in a bid for independence.
The great French playwright and comic actor who flourished at the court of Louis XIV.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss biblical typology.
Brian Boru's celebrated defeat of Hiberno-Norse forces and allies outside Dublin in 1014.
Why two brothers became linked to the fall of the Roman Republic and rise of the emperors.
Insights into the relationship between the body and the mind, habits, language and thought
The prolific and versatile Jacobean playwright tasked with 'improving' some of Shakespeare
