History Extra podcast
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Balmusico
Oct 27, 2021
Always interesting
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May 18, 2021
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Nov 30, 2020
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Description
The HistoryExtra podcast brings you interviews with the world's best historians, on everything from the ancient world and the Middle Ages to the Second World War and the history behind current events. Produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed, it offers fresh takes on history's most famous figures and events. Subscribe for the real stories behind your favourite historical films and TV shows, and compelling insights into lesser-known aspects of the past.
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David Mitchell on a new history of England’s monarchy
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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Archaeology’s golden age: everything you wanted to know
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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One day in the British empire
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Great Reputations: Emmeline Pankhurst
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Radio Times: a century of British broadcasting
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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How to live like a Roman emperor
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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How has fear shaped history?
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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The Battle of Britain: everything you wanted to know
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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Rocket women: America’s first female astronauts
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Great Reputations: Napoleon
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Chaos & violence in country houses
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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The shoemaker who helped slaves escape the South
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Scandals that shocked Georgian Britain
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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British parliament: everything you wanted to know
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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When poison pen letters caused chaos
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Great Reputations: Cleopatra
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Secrets of the Anglo-Saxon bone chests
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Jane Austen’s passion for fashion
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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The brain behind the Dambusters raid
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Spanish flu: everything you wanted to know
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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Women who shaped the Roman empire
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Great Reputations: Oliver Cromwell
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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The secret club for radical New York women
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Margaret Cavendish: scandalous 17th-century writer
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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The triumph of Joan of Arc
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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Rome v Carthage: everything you wanted to know
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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Tokyo’s devastating 1923 earthquake
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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US Civil Rights: legacy
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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On the trail of a Nazi war criminal
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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How did empire shape modern Britain?
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Why did medieval Europe become Christian?
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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The Mongols: everything you wanted to know
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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The lost world of Dickens’ London
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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US Civil Rights: Malcolm X’s assassination
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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The miners’ strike: a view from the ground
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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California’s hidden history of slavery
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Letters from medieval England
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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New Zealand: everything you wanted to know
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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Indian experiences in WW2
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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US Civil Rights: the 1964 Civil Rights Act
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Learning disabilities: an overlooked history
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Secrets of ancient Chinese tombs
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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How forgers helped rescue Holocaust victims
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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Ancient Egyptian religion: everything you wanted to know
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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Introducing HistoryExtra Long Reads
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Did our ancestors really think the world was flat?
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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US Civil Rights: the March on Washington
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Roger Mortimer: medieval rebel
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Emotional revolution in postwar Britain
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Rome vs Persia: an unwinnable fight
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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British seaside holidays: everything you wanted to know
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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Surviving Hitler and Stalin
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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US Civil Rights: the Montgomery bus boycott
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Renaissance beauty regimes
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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AI: An ancient nightmare?
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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A jujitsu-trained suffragette bodyguard
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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The NHS: everything you wanted to know
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Life in a WW2 tank regiment
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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US Civil Rights: Fighting for freedom
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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US Civil Rights: the lynching of Emmett Till
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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A ring of poisoners: Hungary’s most notorious murders
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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RAF Coastal Command: unsung heroes of WW2
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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UFO sightings: an otherworldly history
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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Dog history: everything you wanted to know
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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History's greatest cities | Season 2 Trailer
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Oppenheimer: “destroyer of worlds”
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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How Barbie changed the world
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Britain’s love affair with Edward VII
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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The WAAF: the many behind the few
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Eastern Europe: a personal journey through the region’s past
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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Roman gods & goddesses: everything you wanted to know
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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Blindness: a cultural history
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Big questions of the Crimean War: aftermath and legacy
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Kate Mosse on pirate women & Huguenot refugees
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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How did medieval people tell the time?
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Lost civilisations of the Mediterranean
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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1980s Britain: everything you wanted to know
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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Tom Holland on Rome’s golden age
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Big questions of the Crimean War: into the Valley of Death
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Why Britain fell in love with the NHS
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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From mysterious knitting needles to strange silhouettes: recreating historical clothing
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Life on Britain’s WW1 home front
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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The Franco-Prussian war: everything you wanted to know
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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How the Age of Revolutions rocked the Royal Navy
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Big questions of the Crimean War: the build up
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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The Georgian Bank of England: a day in the life
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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How germs shaped human history
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Salon Kitty: sex & spying in Nazi Germany
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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The Luddites: everything you wanted to know
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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Women on the front line, from forgotten commanders to cross-dressing soldiers
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Before Windrush: Britain’s long relationship with the Caribbean
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Cornwall: a brief history
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Franco’s Spain: paranoia, conspiracy & antisemitism
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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The myth and memory of Waterloo
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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Coffee history: everything you wanted to know
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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Caesar: Death of a Dictator Trailer
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Economies in meltdown: lessons from past financial crashes
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Living through the Troubles
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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What can we learn from the fall of Rome?
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: the overlooked bonds between mother & daughter
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Fight like a man? Masculinity in WW2
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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Penal transportation to Australia: everything you wanted to know
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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Pregnancy & childbirth in the 19th century
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Historical echoes of the Ukraine war
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Plato: the world’s greatest philosopher?
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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How women helped sustain the slave trade
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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The fall and rise of Henry III
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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The SAS in WW2: everything you wanted to know
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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Plot or paranoia? The Amboyna conspiracy trial
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Messalina: sex, slander & scandal in imperial Rome
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May 31, 2023 |
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Amazing archaeological discoveries that trounce Indiana Jones
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May 30, 2023 |
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Living the life of luxury with the Persians & Greeks
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May 29, 2023 |
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Simon Schama on how inoculation changed the world
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May 28, 2023 |
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Mountaineering on Everest: everything you want to know
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May 27, 2023 |
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The History Extra podcast – tell us what you think
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May 26, 2023 |
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Is history too politicised?
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May 25, 2023 |
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Six wives | 6. Katherine Parr
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May 24, 2023 |
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Battling the British empire
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May 23, 2023 |
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William the Conqueror’s invasion plans
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May 22, 2023 |
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Did Black Death trigger the rise of Europe?
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May 21, 2023 |
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Chartism: everything you wanted to know
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May 20, 2023 |
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Three young queens: the unexpected bonds between Renaissance royals
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May 18, 2023 |
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Six wives | 5. Catherine Howard
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May 17, 2023 |
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Ramesses II: Egypt’s greatest pharaoh?
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May 16, 2023 |
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Tudor childhood: from dodging death to nursery rhymes
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May 15, 2023 |
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What can Richard I tell us about medieval masculinity?
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May 14, 2023 |
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Britain in the 1990s: everything you wanted to know
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May 13, 2023 |
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Everyday life in East Germany
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May 11, 2023 |
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Six wives | 4. Anne of Cleves
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May 10, 2023 |
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Why revolution engulfed 19th-century Europe
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May 09, 2023 |
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Keeping time: a watchmaker’s history
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May 08, 2023 |
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Native Americans: a new history
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May 07, 2023 |
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Goths: everything you wanted to know
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May 06, 2023 |
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How (and how not) to stage a coronation
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May 04, 2023 |
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Six wives | 3. Jane Seymour
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May 03, 2023 |
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Queen Charlotte: real history behind the new Bridgerton series
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May 02, 2023 |
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Pomp & power: royal ceremonies through the centuries
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May 01, 2023 |
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WW2 the big questions: final stages of the conflict
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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Westminster Abbey: everything you wanted to know
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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How the Bristol bus boycott changed Britain
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Six wives | 2. Anne Boleyn
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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The Waco siege: an American tragedy
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Shipwreck, scurvy & mutiny: the gruelling tale of HMS Wager
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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WW2 the big questions: the Holocaust
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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Crusader states: everything you wanted to know
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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How women were excluded from sport – and fought back
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Six wives | 1. Catherine of Aragon
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Æthelflæd: ‘Mother of the English’
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Mindbending experiments: how drugs shaped modern science
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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WW2 the big questions: the ‘Big Three’
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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Russian tsars: everything you wanted to know
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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‘Black Douglas’: a not so dastardly bushranger?
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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The KGB’s secret war on the west
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Century of chaos: people & power in the 1600s
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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What Norse poetry reveals about the Viking age
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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WW2 the big questions: the early years of the conflict
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Apr 09, 2023 |
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Life in the trenches: everything you wanted to know
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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Nuclear apocalypse in Britain
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Wild urban spaces: a history
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Boudica’s rebellion: a blood-soaked blow to the Roman empire
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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What did the Tudors wear?
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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WW2 the big questions: the build up
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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British castles: everything you wanted to know
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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The mindset behind the Holocaust
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Grisly killings & mysterious motives: murder in early modern Britain
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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The man who almost discovered the double helix
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Marriage, Middlemarch & male pseudonyms: George Eliot’s unconventional life
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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George VI’s Nazi dilemma
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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The Seven Years’ War: everything you wanted to know
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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Six Wives Trailer
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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Patriarchy’s long roots
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Disciplining the “scum of the Earth”
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Women & the crusades: patronage, propaganda & prayer
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Science & religion: a story of war or harmony?
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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The North: from Bede to Lowry
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Paganism: everything you wanted to know
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Eat for victory: WW2’s “British Restaurants”
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Madame Restell: the abortionist who shocked and fascinated 19th-century New York
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Medieval manuscripts: an enduring obsession
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Njinga: queen, warrior, diplomat
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Sirens, succubi & sex symbols: a history of female monsters
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Britain’s WW2 home front: everything you wanted to know
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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Treasure, heritage & returning artefacts
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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Satire & scandal: the printmakers who mocked Georgian society
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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Elizabethan witchcraft: a trial that divided a community
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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The Iraq War, 20 years on
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Volcanoes & nuclear armageddon: humanity’s long relationship with nature
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Meeting the Mughals: England’s disastrous first embassy to India
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Medieval women: everything you wanted to know
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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History’s greatest cities: Prague Trailer
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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Adventure, betrayal & beetles: the quest for the source of the Nile
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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The Tudor who hiked North America
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Dick Whittington: from medieval merchant to panto hero
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Pirate flags & wedding gowns: a patchwork of a Victorian life
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Oscar Wilde on trial
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Medieval peasants: everything you wanted to know
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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History's greatest cities | Berlin
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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The book that transformed medieval England
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Why the Middle Ages matter
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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The cult of Freud: science, sex & psychoanalysis
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Breastfeeding: a cultural history
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Heliogabalus: Rome’s scandalous emperor
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Interwar Britain: everything you wanted to know
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Which LGBTQ+ histories get told – and which get overlooked?
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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From the Middle Ages to #MeToo: Chaucer’s Wife of Bath
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Astonishing Æthelstan: Michael Wood on the 10th-century king
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Cleopatra’s triumphant daughter
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Marie Antoinette in her own words
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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The Romantics: everything you wanted to know
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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Fearless female voices of the Spanish Civil War
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Why did the Ottoman empire implode?
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Was Shakespeare a snob?
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Tudors in revolt: the Western Rising of 1549
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Female spies who forged the CIA
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Prehistoric cave art: everything you want to know
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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A secret Nazi plot to kill the ‘Big Three’
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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Wild places & wild people: a short history of common land
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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The forgotten years that forged Wales
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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How six women programmed the world’s first modern computer
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Tattoos: a 5,000 year history
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Railway history: everything you wanted to know
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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Forgotten histories of the Holocaust
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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An audacious kidnapping in 1970s Paris
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Blood, sweat & marble: examining ancient bodies
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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A journey along the Iron Curtain
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Fleeing revolution: Russians exiles in Paris
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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The history of atheism: everything you wanted to know
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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How FDR transformed the US presidency
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Indigenous American travellers in Europe
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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The PoWs who survived Nagasaki
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Parachuting monkeys & volcanic eruptions: an extraordinary Victorian zoo
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Curious cures for medieval maladies
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Jane Austen’s England: everything you wanted to know
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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Veggie Victorians
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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An environmental history of big business
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Tools, temples & tower blocks: how wood has shaped human history
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Weaponising food in the Third Reich
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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“A serial killer of civilisations”: a history of climate change
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Life under Cromwell: everything you wanted to know
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Jan 08, 2023 |
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Oddball art: cannibals, hellscapes & flying monks
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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The floating hell of prison hulks
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Refusing to fight in WW2
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Power dressing: the hidden value of clothes in 19th-century America
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Sabotage, cyberwar & assassination: a history of covert action
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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Conspiracy: the lost civilisation of Atlantis
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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Conspiracy: was the moon landing faked?
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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Conspiracy: Who wrote Shakespeare?
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Conspiracy: did Anastasia escape her family’s murder?
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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Conspiracy: did aliens build the pyramids?
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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Conspiracy: Hitler’s escape to South America
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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Alexander the Great’s extraordinary childhood
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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The Cuban Missile Crisis: the road to resolution
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Dandies, fops & macaronis: fashionable men through history
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Brits abroad: a history
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Mongols vs Mamluks
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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The history of alcohol: everything you wanted to know
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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How ballroom dancing gripped Britain
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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The Cuban Missile Crisis: Dangerous days
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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The hell of the Pacific War
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Inside Germany’s postwar prisons
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Pilgrimage, past and present
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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British spies in WW2: everything you wanted to know
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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Black Victorians: radicals, muses, inmates & aristocrats
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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The Cuban Missile Crisis: broken ties & a secret pact
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Football in the First World War
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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The Irish across the globe
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Warrior queens & quiet revolutionaries: forgotten women from history
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Sixties counterculture: everything you wanted to know
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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Conspiracy Trailer
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Dec 03, 2022 |
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Books of the year 2022
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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The Cuban Missile Crisis: tensions mount
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Debtors’ prisons: Dickensian horrors or economic successes?
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Dark Age bullies & forgotten kingdoms: busting early medieval myths
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Enslavement, separation & survival: the story of "Ashley's sack"
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Surgical history: everything you wanted to know
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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Cuban Missile Crisis TRAILER
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Nov 26, 2022 |
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American psychiatry: a tortured history
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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The Mary Rose | 6. protecting the wreck
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Spiritualism, fairies, and Arthur Conan-Doyle
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Desk killers: the psychology of committing crimes against humanity
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Mary, Queen of Scots: The Scottish years
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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World Cup history: everything you wanted to know
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Nov 20, 2022 |
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Crassus: Rome’s richest man
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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The Mary Rose | 5. the mysterious men on-board
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Global stories of museum artefacts
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Victorian visions of the future
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Queens in the Age of Chivalry
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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The Crimean War: everything you wanted to know
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Nov 13, 2022 |
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Writing the history of the modern monarchy
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Nov 12, 2022 |
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The Mary Rose | 4. inside the Tudor treasure trove
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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A whistle-stop tour around the world in AD 1500
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Are period dramas damaging history?
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Pharaohs' pants & knightly toilet troubles: teaching history to kids
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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Medieval excommunication: eternal damnation or no big deal?
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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The gunpowder plot: everything you wanted to know
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Nov 06, 2022 |
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How is Tutankhamun’s legacy shaped by colonialism?
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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The Mary Rose | 3. the fatal final moments
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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History & science: the big questions
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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How the Allies plucked victory from the jaws of defeat
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Halloween monsters: everything you wanted to know
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Halloween traditions: everything you wanted to know
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Oct 29, 2022 |
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Christianity: a success story from the start?
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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The Mary Rose | 2. the Tudor heyday of Henry VIII’s warship
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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A family history of the world
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Cuba & the USA: an intertwined history
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Chaos, ruin & renewal: Germany in 1945
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Oct 23, 2022 |
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Sci-fi history: everything you wanted to know
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Oct 22, 2022 |
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The Cuban Missile Crisis Series Trailer
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Oct 22, 2022 |
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Chaucer’s disputed legacy: new discoveries
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Blackface: a brief history
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Barbarossa: Hitler’s greatest gamble
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Dan Jones on 1,000 years of British history
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Enslaved women & resistance
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Aztecs in their own words
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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A new take on India’s history
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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The French Revolution: Everything you need to know
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Oct 18, 2020 |
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A Triple Bond Broken: The Destruction of the House of York
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Oct 17, 2020 |
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An Atlantic slave war
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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An Anglo-Saxon warlord
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Ancient wisdom with Neil Oliver
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Black radical: William Monroe Trotter
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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The dispossession of Native Americans
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about medieval daily life, but were afraid to ask
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Oct 11, 2020 |
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Should I stay or I should go? The problem with historical monuments in 2020
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Oct 10, 2020 |
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Sparta
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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Medieval turning points
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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The rise and fall of the Sikh empire
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the history of Japan, but were afraid to ask
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Oct 04, 2020 |
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Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944
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Oct 03, 2020 |
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A 1930s ghost hunt
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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Medieval eels and Englishness
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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Ken Follett’s Anglo-Saxon adventure
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Neanderthals, but were afraid to ask
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Sep 27, 2020 |
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Simon de Montfort and England’s First Revolution
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Sep 26, 2020 |
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Toussaint Louverture’s revolutionary life
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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The Mayflower
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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JFK: the path to power
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Viking genes unravelled
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Hitler’s vengeance
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the East India Company, but were afraid to ask
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Sep 20, 2020 |
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Ghosts of Viking London
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Sep 19, 2020 |
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Ben Macintyre on Agent Sonya – the greatest female spy in history
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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Prisoners of the Japanese
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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Medieval rebellions
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Suffragettes, but were afraid to ask
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Sep 13, 2020 |
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Scythians: Warrior Nomads of the Steppe
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Sep 12, 2020 |
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A Cold War killing?
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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Simon Schama on the Romantics
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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Isabel Wilkerson on caste in America
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the legends of King Arthur, but were afraid to ask
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Sep 06, 2020 |
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The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj
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Sep 05, 2020 |
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Britain goes to war, part 2
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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Britain goes to war, part 1
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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Ernest Bevin: working-class warrior
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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The uncommon lives of common sailors
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Hundred Years’ War, but were afraid to ask
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Aug 30, 2020 |
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Crusaders: An Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
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Aug 29, 2020 |
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The extraordinary life of Sultan Selim I
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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Edward the Confessor
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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Revisiting the Kindertransport
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Aztecs, but were afraid to ask
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Aug 23, 2020 |
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Who Dares Wins: Britain in the Age of the Falklands
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Aug 22, 2020 |
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The story of the Freemasons
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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Africa’s cultural liberation
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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The history of seduction
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Spanish Civil War, but were afraid to ask
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Aug 16, 2020 |
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Could D-Day Have Failed?
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Aug 15, 2020 |
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Victory in the east
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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What’s in a medieval name?
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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Authors in the Boer War
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the American Civil War, but were afraid to ask
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Aug 09, 2020 |
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Medieval Wonder Women
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Aug 08, 2020 |
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Documents that changed the world
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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Peter Frankopan on global history in 2020
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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Medieval dynasties: how to stay on the throne
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Ancient Greece, but were afraid to ask (part 2)
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Aug 02, 2020 |
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Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI
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Aug 01, 2020 |
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The Princes in the Tower: History’s Greatest Mysteries
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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Stonehenge: History’s Greatest Mysteries
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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The fate of Jesus’s body: History’s Greatest Mysteries
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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The lost colony of Roanoke: History’s Greatest Mysteries
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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The Voynich Manuscript: History’s Greatest Mysteries
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Ancient Greece, but were afraid to ask (part 1)
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Jul 26, 2020 |
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Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Survivor
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Jul 25, 2020 |
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Unburied treasures
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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African American abolitionists in Britain
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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A history of magic
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about medieval queens, but were afraid to ask
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Jul 19, 2020 |
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At home with the medieval aristocracy
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Jul 18, 2020 |
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Lionheart of stone: the medieval statue debate
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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The Abdication crisis
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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Nero: Rome’s Antichrist?
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Cuban Missile Crisis, but were afraid to ask
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Jul 12, 2020 |
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
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Jul 11, 2020 |
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Museums and colonialism
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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David Abulafia on The Boundless Sea
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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California’s century of change
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Scottish Wars of Independence, but were afraid to ask
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Jul 05, 2020 |
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The Picts
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Jul 04, 2020 |
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Women and the Crusades
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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World War Two: the challenge of commemoration
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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A history of pandemics: from Spanish Flu to Covid-19
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Georgians, but were afraid to ask
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Jun 28, 2020 |
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William and Cnut: a tale of two conquerors
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Jun 27, 2020 |
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Amy Robsart: a Tudor tragedy
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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Britain and the Korean War
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Working mothers
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about British battlefields, but were afraid to ask
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Jun 21, 2020 |
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Saturday lecture: Medieval love and marriage
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Jun 20, 2020 |
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The Lancaster
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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Henry III: inside the mind of a medieval king
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Jun 17, 2020 |
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Francis Drake: slave trader
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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Britain and the slave trade
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the civil rights movement, but were afraid to ask
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Jun 14, 2020 |
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The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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The secret plot to kill Lincoln
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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The unexpected Tudors
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Nazi Germany, but were afraid to ask
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Jun 07, 2020 |
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Saturday lecture: Medieval disease and medicine
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Jun 06, 2020 |
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The history of the Bible
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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A legendary pirate
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Jun 03, 2020 |
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The cosmopolitan Chaucer
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Civil War, but were afraid to ask
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May 31, 2020 |
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Saturday lecture: Medieval food
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May 30, 2020 |
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Indian soldiers at Dunkirk
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May 29, 2020 |
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Medieval prisoners of war
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May 27, 2020 |
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David Olusoga on A House Through Time
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May 25, 2020 |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Crusades, but were afraid to ask
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May 24, 2020 |
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Saturday lecture: Medieval crime and violence
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May 23, 2020 |
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Cooking for Churchill
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May 22, 2020 |
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Rutger Bregman’s optimistic history of the world
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May 20, 2020 |
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Living on the edge in Victorian Britain
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May 18, 2020 |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the English Reformation, but were afraid to ask
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May 17, 2020 |
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Surviving the Great Plague
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May 15, 2020 |
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Rethinking the Renaissance
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May 13, 2020 |
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The life and legend of Florence Nightingale
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May 11, 2020 |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Vikings, but were afraid to ask
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May 10, 2020 |
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Britain at War
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May 08, 2020 |
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The Northumbrians: from Bede to Geordie Shore
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May 06, 2020 |
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Medieval globetrotters
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May 04, 2020 |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Victorians, but were afraid to ask
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May 03, 2020 |
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The Corn Laws crisis
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May 01, 2020 |
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How the world made us
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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The unexpected Vikings
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