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Don Quixote: Spanish masterpiece
The multi-layered masterpiece by Miguel de Cervantes
Antarctic Treaty: Protecting the icy continent
Safeguarding peace and wilderness with the Antarctic Treaty
Harry Houdini: Escape artist and showman
Pulling back the curtain on the master of illusion
Boudica, warrior queen
The Iron Age English warrior queen who led a rebellion against the Romans
Writer Agatha Christie: Murder and mystery
How the queen of crime achieved her extraordinary success
Copper: From mining to microprocessors
The shiny red metal our lives depend on that has powered human development
Pleasure and pain: The philosophy of Jeremy Bentham
The radical ideas of the 18th-century legal reformer Jeremy Bentham
Machu Picchu: Secrets of a forgotten city
The enigma of the Inca mountain retreat
Sofya Kovalevskaya: The eventful life of a maths pioneer
A brilliant Russian whose scientific discoveries helped to reshape European universities
Joseph Heller's Catch-22: A novel of twisted logic and absurd bureaucracy
Bridget Kendall explores a novel that gave rise to a new term in the English language
Franz Liszt: Hungarian pianist and painter in sound
A charismatic musician who transformed classical concerts
Vincent van Gogh: The struggling artist
Charting the highs and lows of the influential Dutch post-Impressionist painter
The invention of numbers
How numbers and counting shaped our world
Pinocchio: The real story of the mischievous wooden puppet
The original Italian novel about the wooden puppet with the growing nose
Money: From coin to cryptocurrency
The origins of coins, paper money, shares and other financial instruments
Margaret Fuller: Early feminist and war correspondent
A brilliant American journalist determined to live her life to the full
The Truman Doctrine: Beginnings of the Cold War
The speech that committed the USA to a 40-year struggle with the Soviet Union
Kwame Nkrumah: Ghana’s Pan-African idealist
Assessing the complex legacy of a man who campaigned for a United States of Africa
Mirror Mirror on the wall: The history of the looking glass
The magical role of the mirror that's revealing ground-breaking secrets of the universe
Emperor Nero: Bad boy of Ancient Rome
Historical s of the notorious Roman emperor skew our interpretation of his legacy
Fertiliser and poison gas: The legacy of chemist Fritz Haber
The scientist who helped feed billions, and unleashed a new kind of death
Vikings and their quest for silver
How Viking trade and raids transformed medieval economy and society
Eunuchs and empires
The painful route to power for some young boys and men
Insulin: The discovery that transformed diabetic care
Tracing the discovery of a hormone that has helped millions manage diabetes
The Koryo Kingdom: Medieval dynasty that united Korea
Progressive, pluralistic and united – the remarkable era of the Koryo Kingdom
The Popol Vuh: Central American epic that survived Spanish conquest
One of the most mind-bending mythological sagas ever written
Ice cream: A cool history
How snow and ice were transformed into one of the world’s most popular desserts
Samurai: Japan’s elite warrior class
The changing image of Japan’s fabled fighters over the centuries
Radio waves and plants: The life of JC Bose
How physics and biology entwined in JC Bose's search for the unity of all life on Earth
The unstoppable orange
The golden fruit that became a symbol of love and wealth
Taras Shevchenko: The slave who became a symbol of Ukrainian independence
The life and work of Ukraine's national bard
