Iran has been governed by the Islamic Republic for more than four decades, with the regime suppressing fundamental rights and killing thousands of Iranian people in the last few months alone.

Resistance to the system has repeatedly erupted - from student uprisings, to reform movements, to mass protests led by women and young people.

So why hasn’t it fallen?

History Uncensored's Bianca Nobilo discusses this with Iranian historical sociologist Professor Kevan Harris, author of 'A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran', which is coming soon.

If you want to understand world history, regional, Middle Eastern politics, and our world's broader contest between democracy and autocracy, you have to understand Iran.

It is one of the world's oldest continuous civilizations and the first ancient superpower, the Achaemenid Empire under Cyrus, a state that has been repeatedly conquered by Greeks, Arabs, Mongols, yet its strong national identity rooted in Persian history has never been erased.

Bianca Nobilo talks us through the history of the country that the whole world now has its eyes on, to help us understand what led the events we see unfolding today.

Note from Bianca: You can look more closely and read the inscription on the Cyrus cylinder here: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1880-0617-1941

Kings once ruled by divine right... but now royals can be arrested by Thames Valley Police. But how did we get here?

Bianca Nobilo gives us 1,000 years of royal scandal in just three minutes, before speaking to royal author Robert Hardman to discuss whether Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor can be removed from the line of succession and more.

How hard is it really to depose a Prime Minister? Can they be impeached like a US president? And can a monarch remove a PM?

History Uncensored's Bianca Nobilo talks us through the ways in which to remove a leader in the UK - drawing on past examples of when a bid to oust someone has been successful... and when it has not.

An entire colony of 100 people gone - leaving a single word carved into wood.

A ship found sailing across the Atlantic, missing all of its passengers.

All of them vanished, forever.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct while in public office on today, his 66th birthday.

It's possibly the biggest royal scandal of our time - but there have, of course, been many throughout history.

Bianca Nobilo speaks to royal author Tom Bower to discuss what today might mean for the former prince - and for the future of the monarchy as a whole.

Award-winning historian and best-selling author William Dalrymple joins History Uncensored host Bianca Nobilo to discuss life in India, the hidden cause of the American Revolution, ancient superpowers ... and the mystery of a deceased cockatoo.

The Olympics were not always a celebration of peace and unity. In the past, they were weaponised by dictators and marred by violence and corruption.

They have however always been a recurring instrument of power, identity, and spectacle.

Bianca Nobilo takes us on a journey from the ancient games to how the Olympics became a Cold War battlefield.

Following her deep-dive in our Samurai Uncensored episode, Bianca Nobilo finds out more about what the Japanese warriors were really like from specialist Dr Jonathan Lopez-Vera.

The myth of the samurai slices through the fog of history. The elite warriors and masters of the sword who are bound to live and die with honour are shrouded in myth.

Where did the samurai actually come from? What did they really live by - and what was invented later? And were women ever part of the warrior class - or is that pure legend?

Bianca Nobilo talks us through the history of the legendary fighters.