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The World Comes to Paris—The Long Road to Peace

4/5 Military historian Hew Strachan on the Paris peace negotiations of 1919 and their legacy.

3/5 How independently brokered agreements slowly achieved a pause in hostilities in WWI.

2/5 Historian Hew Strachan explains how revolution precipitated peace in Bolshevik Russia.

1/5 Hew Strachan discusses Woodrow Wilson's journey from peace broker to belligerent in WWI.

10/10 Christopher Harding discusses Tokyo in the early 20th century.

9/10 Preti Taneja on the architectural links between Letchworth Garden City and New Delhi.

8/10 Exploring Fynes Moryson's An Itinerary, a European travel book from the early 17th century

7/10 Medical historian Matthew Smith explores 1970s US psychiatry: a time of hope and promise.

6/10 Catherine Fletcher on the story of her grandfather, a missionary in India.

5/10 Victoria Donovan explores the dilemmas of post-war reconstruction in Soviet Russia.