Following the death of Tony Benn, who was universally revered, Stephen Fulham looks at the cultural phenomenon that is the death of great statesmen and women.
Lost
Missing planes are mysteries that enrapture communities for decades. Stephen Wears looks at some of the most notorious cases from Amelia Earhart’s disappearance to the legend of the Bermuda Triangle.
South African apartheid
Xan Atkins gives a potted history of the political events and key figures leading up to and during the system of racial segregation in South Africa between 1948 and 1994.
The Mayans
Sophie Brownlee investigates the extensive period of the Mayan civilisation in Central America which lasted from 2600 BC to the end of the seventeenth century.
When people take flight
From the Italians and Irish going to America to the Indian-Pakistani post-partition migrations, Matt Steadman looks at one of the greatest examples of human travel: mass migrations.