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Nov 6, 2023
I talk to the world's best historians and let them tell the stories. And the stories are wonderful! (And occasionally I change the subject and talk about films, philosophy or whatever!).
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The Return of the Emperor (Justinian II - part 2)
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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Mutilated and exiled (the Emperor Justinian II - part 1)
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Buckingham: the most hated man in England
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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YEAR ZERO: Jonathan Clements on the First Emperor of China
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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The Big Hop of 1919
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Martin Luther, serfdom and the German Peasants’ War
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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World War I: The surprising victory of 1918
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Ed West on 1066 and all that
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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Edward I - a Great and Terrible King
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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Empress Wu Zetian and the Age of Female Rule
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Napoleon III Part 2: The Power of Lust
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Napoleon III Part 1: The Lust for Power
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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From Eunuchs to Corsairs: The World of Islamic Slavery
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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The Tokyo Tribunal: War Crimes, Justice, and Geopolitics
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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The Pilgrimage of Grace: When England Fought the Reformation
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Byzantium and the First Crusade
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Shattered Jewels - Japan's Path to War (3 and final)
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Manchuria to Pearl Harbor: Japan's Path to War (2)
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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An Alien Game: Japan's Path to War (1)
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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How England Nearly Conquered France & Why They Failed
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May 02, 2025 |
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Imperial Twilight: How Trade, Tea, and Opium Led to War
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Suleiman's curse - with Christopher de Bellaigue
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Anton Howes on Salt (and on much, much more!)
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Tiberius - a good emperor, a broken man
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Christ's Samurai with Jonathan Clements - part 2
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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Christ's Samurai with Jonathan Clements - part 1
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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In the Kingdom of Ice - with Hampton Sides
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Spring Heeled Jack - with Mike Dash
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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Giles Milton on Nathaniel’s Nutmeg
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Rebel Island - Jonathan Clements on the history of Taiwan - part 2
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Rebel Island - Jonathan Clements on the history of Taiwan - part 1
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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The 4th Crusade and the final fall of the Roman Empire - with Ed Watts
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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In Sulla's shadow - Ed Watts reappraises Caesar
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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A bishop hanged in Dublin
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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Kaldellis on Byzantium - part 2
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May 02, 2024 |
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Anthony Kaldellis on Byzantium (Part 1)
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Hampton Sides - the last voyage of Captain Cook
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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The Sin Eater
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Ed West - From the Romans to Alfred the Great
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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John McWhorter and Scott Sumner - talking movies
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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Dikötter on Dictators
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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The Lives of East Germans - Katja Hoyer
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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Britons never will be slaves?
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Italy, a ruin - part 2 of the Adventures of Belisarius and Antonina
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Constantinople shows its teeth - part 1 of the Adventures of Belisarius and Antonina
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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Mao's China with Frank Dikötter
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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HMS Wager: shipwreck, mutiny and murder
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Sharp and Sumner: 6 Japanese movies
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May 03, 2023 |
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McWhorter and Holland - On dinosaurs
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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Acre 1291 - the final showdown
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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The Salem Witch trials with Stacy Schiff
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Suleiman the Magnificent with Christopher de Bellaigue
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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Slavery in the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Talking movies with Scott Sumner
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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The war against Antony and Cleopatra
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Anna Keay on the Restless Republic (Britain after the death of Charles I)
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Nov 06, 2022 |
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The Death of Alexander pt 2 (Perdicass and the crocodiles)
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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The Death of Alexander Pt 1 - Chaos unfolds
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Gladiator - the movie, the history!
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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A nuclear exchange
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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The Last Emperor of Mexico - part 2
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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The Last Emperor of Mexico - part 1
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Jul 24, 2022 |
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Tulip mania - 1630's Holland goes wild
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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A new world order - the Arab invasions of the 7th century
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Jun 04, 2022 |
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Firepower with Paul Lockhart
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May 11, 2022 |
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Mortal Republic with Edward Watts
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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The Korean War - the battle of the Chosin Reservoir
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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The Silver Way
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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The Last Great Siege - Constantinople 1453
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Rome against Persia - their final battle
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Poggio Bracciolini - an Indiana Jones from the 15th century
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Jan 15, 2022 |
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Pearl Hart - the Wild West's most notorious woman bandit
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Jan 02, 2022 |
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The declines of the Roman Empire with Edward Watts
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Clive of India with Dr Zareer Masani
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Dec 11, 2021 |
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Laurence Bergreen on Magellan
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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With one leap he was free! - stories from Peter Henderson's life
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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A history of astronomy - from the Babylonians to Galileo
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Clocks, Civilization, Power . . . all About Time with David Rooney
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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Talking movies with Freddie deBoer and Abe Callard (Mad Max, OUTIH, Ghostbusters etc)
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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Julian Sancton on the ill fated voyage of the Belgica to the Antarctic in 1898
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Aug 08, 2021 |
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When the Shogun's Sumo met Commodore Perry's minstrel show
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Jul 24, 2021 |
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Amazon the behemoth
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Memories of wartime Japan and reflections on the kamikaze
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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Conquerors - how Portugal built its empire in India
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Jun 13, 2021 |
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Mike Dash on Batavia's Graveyard
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Jun 05, 2021 |
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Abulafia and Devereaux - the ancient Mediterranean
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May 08, 2021 |
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Peter Pomerantsev has stories to tell (and they are all true)
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Bean on battleships (and much else besides)
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Apr 11, 2021 |
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David Goodhart on Head, Hand and Heart and the Road to Somewhere
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Apr 03, 2021 |
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The Siege of Gondor - Bret Devereaux rates the Witch King - A Bad Man, a Good General
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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The Knights of St John against the Turks (and the sheer bloody horror of Lepanto)
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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Bret Devereaux cancels Saruman. (Helms Deep as ancient military history)
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Tom Holland scores 300
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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The Fate of Rome with Kyle Harper
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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David Abulafia and the Boundless Sea
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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Tyler Cowen rates A Separation
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Alex Tabarrok versus the People (Parasite and Burning reviewed)
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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Agnes and Abe Callard are philosophical about films
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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Philip Matyszak - author of the ancient world
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Jul 11, 2020 |
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David Friedman - Legal Systems Very Different From Ours
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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Agnes Callard, Adjective
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May 10, 2020 |
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Is this the most improved school in Britain?
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Mar 16, 2019 |
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Patreon, Paypal and the impending gorilla
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Feb 10, 2019 |
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Stopping smoking - easier than you think
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Jan 06, 2019 |
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Alternate worlds, same old socialism
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Sep 18, 2018 |
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Toby Young - in the eye of the Twitter Storm
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Sep 15, 2018 |