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The Things We Forgot To Remember

Series two

 
Clement Attlee
Clement Attlee

One event, many perspectives

Why can't we arrive at an agreed version of the past - or even of what history is? Why do historians disagree?

In this second series of The Things We Forgot To Remember, Michael Portillo returns to explore some forgotten histories.

Programme one
Londoners in the 1880s were afraid of a psychopath but also feared the collapse of a whole way of life. Find out in Jack the Ripper.

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

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

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

 

 
 

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