Aspects of History
By Oliver Webb-Carter
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The editor of Aspects of History, Ollie Webb-Carter, interviews historians and authors on the past - from the ancient world right up to the modern day. In each episode, Ollie seeks to get to the bottom of a story or scrutinise a figure from history. There are bonus episodes too, on current events and anniversaries to the Aspects of History Film Club.
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The History of Secrets with Andrew Gold
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May 18, 2024 |
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Stalin & Churchill with Giles Milton
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May 11, 2024 |
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Traitor Spies with Michael Smith
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May 04, 2024 |
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Shardlake and Thomas Cromwell with Peter Wagstaff
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May 01, 2024 |
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Iran & Britain with Ali Ansari
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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William Adams & Shogun with Giles Milton
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Film Club: The Passion of the Christ (2004)
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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The Berlin Wall with Iain MacGregor
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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Patrick Leigh Fermor with Artemis Cooper
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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James I with Steven Veerapen
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Colonial Kenya & the Mau Mau with Nicholas Rankin
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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Women's Secret Diaries with Sarah Gristwood
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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The Rise of the Mafia with Louis Ferrante
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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Film Club: Schindler's List (1993)
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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The Arctic Convoys with John McKay
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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Great British Commanders: WW1 Also Rans with Gordon Corrigan
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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Film Club: Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Film Club: Public Enemies (2009)
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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English Football with Gavin Mortimer
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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The Attack on Pearl Harbor with Alan Bardos
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Shogun: 17th Century Japan with Frederik Cryns
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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The History of Ballet with Lucy Ashe
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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Napoleon Bonaparte with Louis Sarkozy
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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The War in Ukraine with Yaroslav Trofimov
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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SpyMasters with Antonia Senior
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Great British Commanders: WW2 Also Rans with Gordon Corrigan
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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Masters of The Air & The Allied Bombing Campaign with Patrick Bishop & Paul Bingley
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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The Princes in the Tower with History with Jackson Pod
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Film Club: Conspiracy (2001) - The Wannsee Conference
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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Duelling & Rivet Counters with Ben Kane
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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The Gothic War & Historical Fiction with Simon Turney
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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Great British Commanders: Douglas Haig with Gary Sheffield & Gordon Corrigan
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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Ridley Scott's Napoleon with Adam Zamoyski
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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SAS Debate: David Stirling - Founder or Phoney? With Gavin Mortimer & Tom Petch
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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Film Club: Napoleon (2023)
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Winston Churchill with David Reynolds
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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The History of Conspiracies with Jonn Elledge
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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The Vietnam War: The My Lai Massacre with Marshall Poe
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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British Fascism with Alec Marsh & Martin Pugh
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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WW2 Italy with James Holland
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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2023 Books of the Year with The Gang
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Charles I with Mark Turnbull
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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Film Club: JFK (1991)
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Female Spies with Helen Fry
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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Film Club: Thirteen Days (2000)
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Kings & Queens with Iain Dale
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Nov 11, 2023 |
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The Gunpowder Plot & The Stuarts with Leanda de Lisle
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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Israel Palestine with Roberto Mazza
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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The Vikings with Theodore Brun
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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Film Club: The Bounty (1984)
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Post War Conflict with General David Petraeus & Andrew Roberts
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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The History of Running with Duncan Larkin
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Film Club: Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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The British Army with General Richard Dannatt and Robert Lyman
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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The British Empire with Matthew Parker
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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The Parthenon Marbles (Part Two) with Dr Mario Trabucco della Torretta
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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Film Club: Munich (2005)
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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The Hundred Years War with Gordon Corrigan. Part Two: Poitiers
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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Homer and the Iliad with Robin Lane Fox
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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Tom Holland on Ancient Rome
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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Cromwell's Protectorate with Paul Lay
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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Film Club: Gallipoli (1981)
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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The Dark Ages with Paula de Fougerolles
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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Elizabeth I with Steven Veerapen
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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The Coalition Government with Vince Cable & Rachel Smith
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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The Holocaust with Roger Moorhouse
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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Great British Commanders: Bill Slim with Robert Lyman & Gordon Corrigan
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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British and US Espionage with Michael Smith
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Film Club: Oppenheimer (2023)
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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The Parthenon Marbles (Part One) with Paul Cartledge
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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The Falklands War with the Modern British Political History Podcast
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Charles II with Charles Spencer
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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The Russo-Ukrainian War with Serhii Plokhy
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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Books of the Year with The Gang
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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The Troubles with Peter Taylor
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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Film Club: Bloody Sunday (2002)
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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The Eastern Front with Iain MacGregor
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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The Battle of Waterloo with Gordon Corrigan
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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Vimy Ridge with Ollie Webb-Carter & Mike Hepburn
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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The Windsors at War with Alexander Larman
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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Generals and Napoleon with John Viscardo
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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Film Club: Dunkirk (2017)
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May 30, 2023 |
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The Second World War with James Holland
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May 27, 2023 |
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The Trojan War with Peter Tonkin
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May 20, 2023 |
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The Other Renaissance with Paul Strathern
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May 16, 2023 |
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The Caesars with Peter Stothard
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May 13, 2023 |
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Coronation 👑 Special: Monarchy Then & Now with Tessa Dunlop
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May 06, 2023 |
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Revolution 1848: The European Spring with Christopher Clark
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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Film Club: Margin Call (2011)
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Berlin with Barney White-Spunner
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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Film Club: The Big Short (2015)
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Greatest Tudor Myths with Steven Veerapen
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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How History Shapes Russia with Adam Zamoyski
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Napoleon's Invasion of Russia with Adam Zamoyski
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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The Hundred Years War with Gordon Corrigan. Part One: Crécy
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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Film Club: Argo (2012)
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Demetrius & the Successors of Alexander the Great with James Romm
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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The Western Front with Anthony Seldon
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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Introducing....The Aspects of History Podcast
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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The French & Indian War with John Sayles
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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The Middle Ages with Ian Mortimer
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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Aspects of History Film Club: Lincoln (2012)
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Colonialism with Nigel Biggar
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Feb 18, 2023 |
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SAS Origins with Tom Petch
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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The First World War with Gary Sheffield
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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The Anglo-Zulu War with Saul David
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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The Trial & Execution of Charles I - Part Two: The Execution with Mark Turnbull
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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The Trial & Execution of Charles I - Part One: The Trial with Mark Turnbull
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Jan 21, 2023 |
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SAS Rogue Heroes with Gavin Mortimer
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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The Politics of the Tudor Court Under Henry VII & Henry VIII with Joanna Hickson
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Jan 07, 2023 |
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History Today with Peter Hughes
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Dec 31, 2022 |
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Christmas Special: Top 10 Historical Christmas Events
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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Bonus Episode: Top 10 Historical Movies with Director Tim Hewitt
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Stalingrad with Iain MacGregor
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Dec 17, 2022 |
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Elizabeth II, Philip and Monarchy with Dr Tessa Dunlop
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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Henrietta Maria: The Phoenix Queen with Leanda de Lisle
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Dec 03, 2022 |
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Politics & War with Lawrence Freedman
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Nov 26, 2022 |
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Bonus Episode: Top 10 Families of History
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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The Nazi Soviet Pact with Roger Moorhouse
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Nov 19, 2022 |
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US Marines in the Pacific & Ukraine with Saul David
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Nov 12, 2022 |
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The Parachute Regiment in WW2 with Mark Urban
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Nov 05, 2022 |
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A Family History of the World with Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Oct 29, 2022 |
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The Cuban Missile Crisis with Max Hastings
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Oct 22, 2022 |
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Bonus Episode, Black History Month: Tudors, POWs, Isandlwana, Josephine Baker & ATS vets
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Crassus - The First Tycoon with Peter Stothard
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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Colditz, Gordievsky and Philby with Ben Macintyre
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Oct 08, 2022 |
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Tudor Greatest Hits with Steven Veerapen
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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Act of Oblivion with Robert Harris
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Sep 24, 2022 |
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The Destruction of Smyrna, 1922 with Giles Milton
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Sep 17, 2022 |
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The Death of the Queen with Dr Tessa Dunlop
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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The Queen
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Sep 10, 2022 |
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Oliver Cromwell with Miranda Malins
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Sep 03, 2022 |
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Thomas Kendrick, the Spymaster who saved MI6 with Helen Fry
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Aug 27, 2022 |
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Andrew Roberts on the Cliveden Literary Festival
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Aug 20, 2022 |
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The Partition of India with Barney White Spunner
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Aug 13, 2022 |
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Mark Ellis on Crime in WW2 London, & My Top 10 Historical Movies
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Aug 06, 2022 |
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Elizabethan Secret Agents, Fédon's Rebellion and Operation Condor with Timothy Ashby
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Jul 30, 2022 |
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Operation Pedestal, the mission to relieve Malta during WW2 with Max Hastings & Saul David
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Jul 23, 2022 |
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Free Speech in Comedy, the Soviet Union, and the West today with Konstantin Kisin
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Jul 16, 2022 |
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Espionage during the Second World War with Alex Gerlis
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Jul 09, 2022 |
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The English Civil War with Mark Turnbull
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Jul 02, 2022 |
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The Irish Revolution and Anglo-Irish Treaty with Gretchen Friemann
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Jun 25, 2022 |
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Russia, Lenin, Revolution and Civil War with Antony Beevor
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Jun 18, 2022 |
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Conn Iggulden on Ancient Greece, Pericles and Historical Fiction
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Jun 11, 2022 |
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Josephine Baker - French Resistance Agent with Damien Lewis
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Jun 04, 2022 |
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David Stirling - The Phoney Major of the SAS in WW2 with Gavin Mortimer
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May 28, 2022 |
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👑 Jubilee Special 👑 The Queen in WW2 with Dr Tessa Dunlop
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May 21, 2022 |
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The Berlin Airlift with Giles Milton
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May 14, 2022 |
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The Start of the Cold War with Giles Milton
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May 07, 2022 |
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The War on the West with Douglas Murray
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Apr 30, 2022 |
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Tipping Points in History: The Battle of Stalingrad with Gordon Corrigan
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Apr 23, 2022 |
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Tipping Points in History: The Peloponnesian War & the American Civil War with Gordon Corrigan
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Apr 16, 2022 |
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Massacre at Dartmoor Prison with Nicholas Guyatt
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Apr 09, 2022 |
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The War of 1812 with Nicholas Guyatt
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Apr 02, 2022 |
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Occupied Norway in WW2, Lebensborn and the Shetland Bus with Mandy Robotham
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Mar 26, 2022 |
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The Assassination of Julius Caesar with Peter Stothard. Part Two - Modern Day Assassinations
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Mar 19, 2022 |
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The Assassination of Julius Caesar with Peter Stothard
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Mar 12, 2022 |
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George Washington with David O. Stewart. Part Two: The Politician
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Mar 05, 2022 |
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George Washington with David O. Stewart. Part One: His Early Career & Slavery
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Feb 26, 2022 |
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Bombing of Hamburg in 1943 and the Impact of WW2 on Europe with Keith Lowe
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Feb 19, 2022 |
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Monuments to WW2, Soviet statues and Winston Churchill with Keith Lowe
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Feb 12, 2022 |
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Communist spies in the 1930s, Icelandic Murder Mysteries and Financial Crime with Michael Ridpath
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Feb 05, 2022 |
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Munich 1938, Neville Chamberlain and Historical Fiction with Michael Ridpath
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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The Charge of the Light Brigade, the Zulu War and the Start of WW1 with Saul David
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Jan 22, 2022 |
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The Special Boat Service in WW2 with Saul David
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Jan 15, 2022 |
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Jeremy Paxman on the History of Coal Mining, The Battle of Orgreave and Napoleon
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Jan 08, 2022 |
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Traitor King - Part Two - Andrew Lownie on the Duke & Duchess of Windsor
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Dec 18, 2021 |
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Traitor King - Andrew Lownie on the Duke & Duchess of Windsor
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Dec 11, 2021 |
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Statue Wars - Peter Hughes on Love & Hate in Statues
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Dec 04, 2021 |
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Historical Fiction with Anne O'Brien: The Pastons and the Wars of the Roses
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Nov 27, 2021 |
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A War of Empires - Part Two of Robert Lyman on the Indian Army in the Far East in WW2
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Nov 20, 2021 |
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War of Empires - Robert Lyman on India, Britain, Burma and Japan in WW2
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Nov 13, 2021 |
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Army Girls - Tessa Dunlop on the veterans of the ATS during WW2
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Nov 06, 2021 |
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Army Girls with Dr Tessa Dunlop - Veterans WW2, the ATS and Deaths in Combat
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Oct 30, 2021 |
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George II and Slavery with Norman Davies- Part Two
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Oct 23, 2021 |
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George II and the Dysfunctional Hanoverians with Norman Davies
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Oct 09, 2021 |
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George III with Andrew Roberts
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Tudors in Love - Sarah Gristwood on Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and courtly love - Part Two
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Sep 25, 2021 |
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Tudors in Love - Sarah Gristwood on Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn and their courtly love.
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Sep 18, 2021 |
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The Invasion of Poland with Roger Moorhouse - Part Two
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Sep 11, 2021 |
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The Invasion of Poland with Roger Moorhouse - Part One
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Sep 04, 2021 |