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Don Quixote: Spanish masterpiece
Algae: Slime life
The original Goths
Laskarina Bouboulina, the mother of modern Greece
Mary Somerville: The queen of 19th-Century science
The Malayan Emergency
The Devils: Dostoevsky’s novel of political evil
A focus on spectacles
Sarah Bernhardt: Queen of stage and screen
A dirty history of diamonds
The story of Evita
Sushi: The Japanese dish with an ancient tradition
Toni Morrison: The legacy of a literary legend
Algorithms: From the ancients to the internet
Louder! How the electric guitar conquered popular music
Luigi Pirandello: Italian dramatist who brought chaos to the stage
Mars: A history of the Red Planet
A radiant light: The Indonesian poet Amir Hamzah
Sailing by the stars: The pioneering voyages of David Lewis
Inside the mind of crime writer Patricia Highsmith
Ibn Sina: The Persian polymath
The Panama Canal: The real story behind the engineering triumph
Ida Pfeiffer: 19th Century globetrotter
Rain or shine? A short history of the weather forecast
Emile Berliner, inventor of the gramophone
Tracing the roots of ancient trees
The Wizard of Oz: A homegrown American fairy tale
Falconry: The history of hunting with birds of prey
Aramaic: An imperial language without an empire
X-rays: New ways of seeing
Machiavelli, master of power
The birth of the modern car
Ukulele - a history of Hawaii's national instrument
Tadeusz Kosciuszko, groundbreaking fort builder
The census: A snapshot of life
Unravelling the history of knitting
One Hundred Years of Solitude: The story of Latin America
Rabindranath Tagore: The Bard of Bengal
Pauline Viardot: 19th-Century diva
The One Thousand and One Nights
Adventures with dentures: The story of dentistry
BR Ambedkar: The Dalit hero of India
Making waves: the history of swimming
Abraham Maslow’s psychology of human needs
The Kalevala: the Finnish epic that inspired a nation
Sister Juana, a great mind of Mexico
Mermaids: Tales from the deep
Eleusinian Mysteries: Secret ceremonies promising happiness
Toussaint L’Ouverture: Hero of the Haitian slave rebellion
Olympe de Gouges: France’s forgotten revolutionary heroine
Alexandre Yersin and the race to fight the plague
Famous hats in history
Mugham: the sound of Azerbaijan
The Kingdom of Aksum: Africa's trading empire
Umm Kulthum: Egypt’s singing superstar
Alexandre Dumas: The man behind the Musketeers
Unlocking the mysteries of cuneiform tablets
First impressions: The printing press
The woman whose cells changed medical history
Comenius, a pioneer of lifelong learning
Dido of Carthage: A love story gone wrong
Paul Robeson: Singer, actor and civil rights activist
Telling the time: From sundials to satnav
Writer Jorge Luis Borges: Mixing the magical with the mundane
Elizabeth Fry: 'The angel of prisons'
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Queen Tamar: The myth of a perfect ruler
Who were the Huguenots?
Smallpox: The defeat of the speckled monster
Lal Ded, mystical Kashmiri poet
Secrets of the Great Pyramid
Ray Bradbury, a master of science fiction
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Picasso, artist of reinvention
Tolstoy: War and Peace
Chaucer, father of English poetry
Up close with tango
Valkyries: Fierce women of war
Silk routes: 2000 years of trading
Bertha von Suttner: A champion of peace
Joan of Arc: Making a martyr
Babylon, city of wonders
Aesop and the Fables
Goethe: The story of colour
The California Gold Rush
The 1918 Spanish Flu: The mother of all pandemics
Gerard Mercator: The man who revolutionised mapmaking
Gretta Cousins: champion of Irish and Indian women
Natsume Soseki: Japan’s great novelist
In search of the good life: Epicurus and his philosophy
Artemisia Gentileschi: The painter who took on the men
Guide dogs for the blind: A history
Oscar Niemeyer: Brazil's king of curves
Haile Selassie: the last emperor of Ethiopia
Emilie du Chatelet: a free-spirited physicist
Man v mosquito
The magic of bronze
Li Bai: The revered Chinese poet
Nefertiti: The beguiling Egyptian Queen
The amazing Dr Darwin