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Tim Marshall unravels the past and present to provide insight into the symbols that continue to unite and divide us

We often dwell on the self-interest of opponents

Claire Randall returns to the Scottish Highlands to look up an historian she met 20 years earlier

while others died in appalling agony

Eddy hid under a pile of old clothes and stayed behind

The bombmaker specialises in drone strikes

charting the rise and fall of this kaleidoscope of a man

As the sun set slowly on the British Empire in the years after the Second World War

he goes looking for help

Her marriage has collapsed under the weight of the loss she shares with her husband

As an adult

18-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage