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An engraving from Ulrich Molitor’s ‘On witches and female soothsayers’, depicting witches bringing down the rain. Germany, 15th century. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

A spell-binding history of witches

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Schama on ‘Civilisations’ . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In ‘Venus Uncovered’ on BBC Four, Wednesday 15 November at 9pm, Bettany Hughes investigates the mythological figure of Venus. (© Sandstone Global/Image by Tim Knight)

Bettany Hughes on the symbol of Venus

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The ‘Father of History’ and India in the British empire . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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Bettany Hughes on the history of Istanbul . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Acropolis Museum Athens, combines modern and ancient

Explore Athens: a city of ancient sites and modern visions . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Yangguan Museum and a statue of Zhang Qian. (Getty Images)

Global encounters of the ancient kind

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The Cold War and the history of philosophy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Jacobites and the Ancient World . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bust of Homer c850 BC. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

“We are all Trojans…”: Homer’s poetic legacy

A combo picture of two images taken 13 August 2002 at Cairo Museum shows a foot of a mummy missing its big toe and beside it a prosthetic toe of leather and wood to replace the amputated real one. (Photo by Marwan Naamani/AFP/Getty Images)

Q&A How long have people used prosthetic limbs?

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Democracy and an age of genius . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A global view of history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

7th January 1926: Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, HQ of the Allied cryptopgraphers during WW II and where the German 'Enigma' and 'Lorenz' codes, both considered unbreakable, were deciphered. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

7 phases of the history of Artificial intelligence