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Greg Jenner talks about his latest book, Ask A Historian, which tackles 50 burning questions that people have about the past. (Image by Fran Monks for BBC History Magazine)

What would you ask a historian? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Cultural sociologist Rachel Hurdley peers into the curious history of windows. (Image by Getty Images)

Windows: an illuminating history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Christina Ezrahi shares the story of Nina Anisimova, a premier Soviet ballerina arrested for supposed counter-revolutionary activity. (Image by Getty Images)

How a ballerina survived the Gulag . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A panel of expert historians discuss how history can help make sense of current events in Afghanistan. (Image by Getty Images)

Afghanistan: a history of instability . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Dan Jones shares a ghost story from the Middle Ages and explains what it might tell us about medieval attitudes to the afterlife

Medieval ghost stories . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Chris Pearson discusses his latest book, Dogopolis, which explores how human-canine relationships shaped New York, Paris and London. (Image by Getty Images)

How dogs shaped city life . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Martha S Jones charts African-American women’s long and determined pursuit of the vote, and of broader political power

African-American women’s battle for the vote . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Tim Harper reveals how clandestine networks of anti-colonialist rebels operated across Asia in the early 20th century

Asia’s anti-imperial revolutionaries . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Emma Rothschild WL

A family history of France . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Marjoleine Kars WL

Berbice: a slave rebellion that nearly succeeded . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Hannah Skoda WL

Trial by combat: the real history behind The Last Duel . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Tyler Stovall speaks to Ellie Cawthorne about his Cundill History Prize-shortlisted book 'White Freedom'.

Liberty and racism: an interconnected history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Andrew Roberts WL

George III: the tyrant who lost America? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Marie Favreau talks to the HistoryExtra podcast

At home with the Mongols . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Nick Baker and John Woolf discuss some lesser known aspects of the Edwardian Age. (Image by Getty Images)

Unexpected Edwardians . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.