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Apartheid in South Africa

Why did women get the vote?

Scotland and the Atlantic Slave Trade

Nazi economic policies

Lithuanian immigration to Scotland

Labour Social Reforms, 1945-1951

Nazi Germany - the Nuremburg Rallies

A brief history of Lochee

World War One - attack of the Dead Men

Liberal Social Reforms, 1906-1914

Atlantic Slave Trade - abolishing the slave trade

Racism in the USA - the Jim Crow laws

A brief history of Kilmarnock

World War One - conscription in Britain

Emigrant Scots in New Zealand

Nazi Germany - the Kindertransports

The life of Elsie Inglis

A brief history of Aberdeen

Young people in Nazi Germany

Cold War - the Space Race

Re-opening the Scottish Parliament in 1999

Should we take down statues?

A brief history of Edinburgh

Weimar and Nazi Germany - 1923 hyperinflation

The end of the Soviet Union

Women's lives during World War One

Emigrant Scots in India

A brief history of Glasgow

Cold War - the Korean War

The Battle of Bannockburn

Nazi Germany - the Beer Hall Putsch

Emigrant Scots in Australia

A brief history of Dundee

The Berlin Wall

Atlantic Slave Trade - the life of a slave

World War One - Defence of the Realm Act (DORA)

Emigrant Scots in Canada

World War One - the Battle of the Somme

Nazi Germany - anti-Nazi resistance

Jewish immigration to Scotland

Cold War détente

The life of Mary, Queen of Scots

World War One - the Christmas Truce

Nazi Germany - the Reichstag Fire

Karl Marx and Communism

Irish immigrants in Scotland

Atlantic Slave Trade - the Middle Passage

The life of Rosa Parks

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Scottish Wars of Independence

Jews in Nazi Germany

Clydeside rent strikes

Anti-slavery campaigners

Scotland and the British Empire

Weapons of the Great War

The assassination of John F Kennedy

Women in Nazi Germany

British cities and the Atlantic Slave Trade

The life of Martin Luther King

World War One - life in the trenches

Weimar and Nazi Germany - the Spartacist Revolt

The Vietnam War

Italian immigrants in Scotland

Great War protests

The Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution

Becoming a slave (Atlantic Slave Trade)

The Treaty of Versailles (1919)

Conscientious objectors during World War One

The Highland Clearances

Slavery: the triangular trade

Causes of the Cold War

The Suffragettes

The Holocaust

The life of William Wallace