Peter Caddick-Adams

Peter Caddick-Adams

Peter Caddick-Adams is a writer and broadcaster who specialises in military history, defence and security issues. He lectures at universities, military academies and staff colleges around the world and spent 35 years as an officer in the UK Regular and Reserve Forces.

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Peter Caddick-Adams on the laws of war“Russian politicians and military figures behind the awful events unfolding in Ukraine will, one day, be brought to justice”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Peter Caddick-Adams on generals killed in battle“Russian general casualties in Ukraine today are significantly higher than the Allied commitment in WW2”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Peter Caddick-Adams on the history of neutrality“As many nations found to their cost in the 20th century, declaring neutrality and it being respected are two different matters”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Emma Dabiri

Emma Dabiri is an author, broadcaster and teaching fellow in African languages, cultures and literatures at SOAS University of London. Her most recent book is Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty (Profile Books, 2023). She has presented several television and radio programmes including BBC Radio 4's critically-acclaimed documentaries Journeys into Afro-futurism and Britain's Lost Masterpieces

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Emma Dabiri“Merriman-Labor’s searing satire of the British was not well received”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Emma Dabiri“He dreamed a career that seemed impossible and made it a reality”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Amazon rainforest is hiding an ancient secret – and scientists now know what it is. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Kavita Puri

Kavita Puri is a journalist, author and broadcaster. A new edition of her book Partition Voices: Untold British Stories, marking the 75th anniversary of partition, is out now, published by Bloomsbury. Her latest documentary for BBC Radio 4, Inheritors of partition, marks the 75th anniversary of the division of the Indian subcontinent through three stories from the third generation in Britain, and is available on BBC Sounds.

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Kavita Puri's hidden histories: "We mustn’t overlook the toll of surfacing traumatic histories". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Kavita Puri's hidden histories: how Gurdip Singh Chaggar's murder in 1976 sparked a youth movement. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Kavita Puri's hidden histories: "Britain’s first black editor achieved so much in such a short life"

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Anna Whitelock

Anna Whitelock is a historian, author and broadcaster. She is professor of the history of monarchy at City, University of London and director of the Centre for the Study of Modern Monarchy. Anna is an international media commentator on monarchy, public history and heritage, and the Tudors and Stuarts

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Anna Whitelock's Talking PointsFriends or enemies?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Anna Whitelock's Talking PointsA history of violence. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Anna Whitelock's Talking PointsFoundational stories. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood

Michael Wood is professor of public history at the University of Manchester. He has presented numerous BBC series and has made more than 100 documentary films. He is the author of several highly praised books on English history, including In Search of the Dark Ages, Domesday, and In Search of England. His latest book is The Story of China (Simon & Schuster, 2020)

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Michael Wood on the rise of Britain's universities. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood on the Bangladesh Liberation War“From Africa to the Indian subcontinent, imperialism has left a trail of damage”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood on the ongoing legacy of slavery"Slavery’s effects are still working themselves out in our lives today". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How cruel was William the Conqueror to the Anglo-Saxons? This document reveals the "miserable" truth. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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India’s forgotten WW1 heroes: why it’s taken a century for these soldiers to be recognised. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Vikings brutalised our ancestors. So why do the English still love them?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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