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Revolutionary free speech
Clare Siviter looks at attempts to liberate and then censor expression in 1790s France.
Fugitive slaves, Victorian justice
Oskar Jensen tells the tall tale of a court case inspired by a best-selling novel
Religion and Science
Is the idea that religion and science are at odds a myth?
A family of witches
Emma Whipday explores the demonisation of single mothers in English witch trials.
New Thinking: Raiding Gay鈥檚 the Word & Magnus Hirschfeld
Diarmuid Hester hears about Operation Tiger & early 1900s queer life writing
The Rossettis and Walter Pater
Matthew Sweet and guests visit a Tate Britain show and look at Pater's Renaissance ideas
Introducing New Generation Thinkers 2023
Chris Harding meets the 10 academics who will make programmes from their research in 2023
Charles Babbage and broadcasting the sea
The father of modern computing thought the sea could communicate. Joan Passey explains.
Translating Cultures
Composer Alex Ho, novelist Xiaolu Guo, curator George Young and director Anthony Lau
East Germany
Katja Hoyer on East Germany, behind the Berlin Wall and the Cold War caricature
