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À travers l’Histoire, de nombreuses sociétés se sont organisées de façon patriarcale : à savoir que tout ou partie des fonctions dirigeantes étaient placées entre les mains des hommes. Du coup, ça suppose une certaine exclusion des femmes pour ces fonctions. Et comme tant d’autre ...  Show more

À votre avis, pourquoi Rome a-t-elle eu une histoire aussi glorieuse ? Et si je vous disais… que c’était grâce à ses routes ? Qui aurait cru que la grandeur d’un empire tenait à l’enchevêtrement astucieux de gros pavés sur plusieurs couches de mortier, de cailloux, de pierres pla ...  Show more

What makes a good Second World War exhibit? How can we best share the story of the Holocaust? Two new galleries dedicated to these seismic events at London’s Imperial War Museum grapple with these questions and others. Historian Keith Lowe spoke to curators Vicki Hawkins, Kate Cl ...  Show more

Throughout history, there have been plenty of hugely destructive, catastrophic moments. And yet somehow the human race managed to live on until today. So how did people in the Medieval period find ways to survive, for example, a siege of their city, or a natural disaster, or p ...

Since the dawn of history humans have been intrigued by the weather. However while it has the potential to sustain or destroy life, our ability to accurately forecast it is very recent. In this podcast I am joined by meteorologists Evelyn Cusack and Noel Fitzpatrick to explain ...

The Second World War officially ended on September 2nd 1945 - and it's estimated that around 3% of the Earth's population perished during the conflict. But what ultimately bought WW2 to an end - and how vital a role did the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki play in obtaining a J ...  Show more