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There is no truth in history

28 Jul 2010
Gandhi was the saintly father of modern India

28 Jul 2010
The French have no right to be proud of their World War II resistance

18 Jun 2010
The Ottoman Empire was good for the Arabs

17 May 2010
National identity is forged in defeat

17 May 2010
Romanticism destroyed nature

17 May 2010
Castro's Cuba works

17 May 2010
The English Civil War was a revolution

17 May 2010
Britain made India poor

20 Apr 2010
The Westphalian nation state has had its day

20 Apr 2010

Comments: 1
The Congress of Vienna solved nothing and led straight to World War I

20 Apr 2010
Sir Thomas More: Saint or sinner?

20 Apr 2010
Field Marshal Haig and the WWI generals were donkeys leading lions

20 Apr 2010
Pope Pius XII was Hitler's pope

31 Mar 2010
Lenin was just lucky

19 Mar 2010
Turkey should apologise for genocide in Armenia

02 Mar 2010
The Second World War was the consequence of the Treaty of Versailles

15 Feb 2010
Richard Nixon: Hero or villain?

02 Feb 2010
Who was worse, Hitler, Stalin or Mao?

29 Jan 2010
Margaret Thatcher: Saviour or wrecker?

07 Jan 2010
The Aztecs were the neighbours from hell

23 Nov 2009
Did slavery make economic sense?

20 Nov 2009
Napoleon Bonaparte: Hero or monster?

20 Nov 2009

Comments: 1
Pope John Paul II did more harm than good

26 Oct 2009
Churchill: Hero or human being?

22 Oct 2009
Did the New Deal work?

22 Sep 2009

Live debates

Maggie Thatcher saved Britain

Filmed: 02 Nov 2004

1 hr 48 min
The British Empire was a force for good

Filmed: 01 Jun 2004

1 hr 42 min
Churchill was a liability to the free world

Filmed: 03 Sep 2009

1 hr 46 min

Talks

Francis Wheen on the Seventies, at 5x15

Filmed: 14 Jun 2010

18 min 57 sec
“The Sixties” with Christopher Hitchens and William F Buckley

Filmed: 29 Jul 1998

24 min 52 sec
David Starkey on English history and English law

Filmed: 06 May 2010

1 hr 7 min
Edward Ball on 'Slaves in the Family'

Filmed: 01 Aug 2000

59 min 11 sec
Father Patrick Desbois in conversation with Paul LeClerc

Filmed: 03 Mar 2009

1 hr 30 min
In Defence of World War Two

Filmed: 09 Jul 2008

39 min 55 sec
Hitchens and Service on Trotsky

Filmed: 28 Jul 2009

35 min 55 sec
John Mitchinson on Bentham and Blake, at 5x15

Filmed: 15 Mar 2010

13 min 35 sec
The Voice of Florence Nightingale

Filmed: 30 Jul 1890

49 sec
Interview with Amelia Earhart

Filmed:

59 sec
Sylvia Pankhurst – The Trafalgar Square Riot (1913)

Filmed: 1913

1 min 10 sec
Eleanor Roosevelt addresses the United Nations

Filmed: 28 Sep 1948

53 sec
Rosa Parks interviewed by the Academy of Achievement

Filmed: 02 Jun 1995

1 min 21 sec
Ben Macintyre on Operation Mincemeat, at 5x15

Filmed: 22 Feb 2010

14 min 31 sec
Edward N Luttwak on 'The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire'

Filmed: 08 Feb 2010

59 min 1 sec
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on world history

Filmed: 03 Feb 2010

12 min 53 sec
Francis Wheen on paranoia in the 1970s

Filmed: 03 Feb 2010

8 min 13 sec
Lord Kinnock on the 1984 Miners' Strike

Filmed: 12 Mar 2009

13 min 46 sec
Francis Beckett on the 1984 Miners' Strike

Filmed: 12 Mar 2009

6 min 27 sec
Lord Hunt on the 1984 Miners' Strike

Filmed: 12 Mar 2009

9 min 17 sec
Eric Hobsbawm on jazz and historiography

Filmed: May 2009

10 min 6 sec
David Starkey on historians and film adaptions

Filmed: May 2009

11 min 0 sec

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