Previously..

Spacecraft

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Programmes previously featured in Michael Portillo's survey of historical events overlooked by history:

Turning the war

There's a challenger for the pivotal role usually assigned to the Battle Of Britain.

Victorian fear of Jack the Ripper or the collapse of a whole way of life? Find out in Jack the Ripper.

Just how radical was the post war political agenda? Michael Portillo goes in search of political choices in the 1945 Labour Government.

It wasn't all about chopping the heads off the wealthy - there was a much darker side to the French revolution.

The Forest Charter, as important as Magna Carta, so why don't we know about it? Learn more in Magna Carta.

Raleigh finished his bowls and then polished off the Spanish? Not quite - the threat didn't end with the Armada.

It wasn't putting a man on the moon, but an earlier mission which gave America victory in the Space Race.

The slaughter of the Somme or 100 days of victory? Michael Portillo searches for missing history in World War One.