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Dec 19, 2024
RuthyK
Jul 30, 2024
Expert discussions with historians about their areas of research and interest. Always engaging and brimful of new information you never knew about.
Apr 14, 2024
Simon Nuttall
Apr 4, 2024
I've listened to this for years, never disappoints. if you like history, highly recomended
Mar 31, 2024
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Feb 11, 2025 |
The forgotten JFK assassination plot
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The Indian Rebellion of 1857: everything you wanted to know
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From dinosaurs to Godzilla: a 15,000-year history of monsters
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How monasteries powered medieval Europe
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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George Villiers: from royal favourite to enemy number one
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Extinct animals: everything you wanted to know
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Agony and ecstasy: the lives of mystics
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How medicine became a moneymaker
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Jan 30, 2025 |
Carolingians in crisis: the medieval civil war that shaped Europe
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Charles Dickens: life of the week
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Jan 28, 2025 |
Murder in WW2 London
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Jan 27, 2025 |
British TV history: everything you wanted to know
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Jan 26, 2025 |
The big questions of the Holocaust
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Jan 25, 2025 |
Happiness: history of an emotion
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Jan 24, 2025 |
The 1453 fall of Constantinople: capturing the Byzantine capital
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Jan 23, 2025 |
Inside the mind of the Third Reich
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Jan 22, 2025 |
Sacagawea: life of the week
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Jan 21, 2025 |
Women's bodies: an unreliable history
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Jan 20, 2025 |
Ancient Mesopotamia: everything you wanted to know
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Jan 19, 2025 |
Who moulded Winston Churchill?
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Jan 18, 2025 |
Elizabethan London: a multicultural melting pot
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Jan 17, 2025 |
Strange stories of medieval saints
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Jan 16, 2025 |
What is the greatest historical movie of all time?
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Jan 15, 2025 |
Nell Gwyn: life of the week
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Jan 14, 2025 |
How pigs caused a stink in medieval England
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Jan 13, 2025 |
The Hanseatic League: everything you wanted to know
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Jan 12, 2025 |
Secret forceps & pig bladders: medical objects through time
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Jan 10, 2025 |
How Roman roads transformed Europe
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Hotel Lux: the guesthouse of world revolution
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Jan 08, 2025 |
Introducing History's Greatest Scandals | New Podcast
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Susan B Anthony: life of the week
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Jan 07, 2025 |
How the compass became a political weapon
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Medieval towns: everything you wanted to know
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Jan 05, 2025 |
Harold Wilson: the rock 'n' roll prime minister
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Jan 03, 2025 |
Who is buried at Sutton Hoo?
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Jan 02, 2025 |
Sex and Christianity: 2,000 years of love and fury
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Jan 01, 2025 |
Catherine the Great: life of the week
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Dec 31, 2024 |
The Second Norman Conquest
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Dec 30, 2024 |
The Carolingians: everything you wanted to know
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Dec 29, 2024 |
The SAS in WW2: everything you wanted to know
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Dec 28, 2024 |
Arnhem: 24 hours that shattered Allied dreams
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Dec 27, 2024 |
Tudor England | 5. The wider world
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Dec 26, 2024 |
2024 in review: history behind the headlines
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Dec 24, 2024 |
Shipwrecks: a porthole to the past
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Dec 23, 2024 |
Quaker history: everything you wanted to know
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Dec 22, 2024 |
Christmas history: everything you wanted to know
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Dec 21, 2024 |
How convict labour forged empires
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Dec 20, 2024 |
Tudor England | 4. Religion and superstition
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Dec 19, 2024 |
Secrets of medieval churches
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Dec 18, 2024 |
Isabella of Castile: life of the week
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Dec 17, 2024 |
The massacre that shattered the old Ottoman world
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Dec 16, 2024 |
Underwear history: everything you wanted to know
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Dec 15, 2024 |
Medieval relic hunters: the quest for Notre-Dame's crown of thorns
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Dec 13, 2024 |
Tudor England | 3. Culture and innovation
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Dec 12, 2024 |
Tempting treats & festive feats: christmas shopping down the ages
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Dec 11, 2024 |
Robert the Bruce: life of the week
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Dec 10, 2024 |
Germany's postwar reinvention
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Dec 09, 2024 |
Robot history: everything you wanted to know
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Dec 08, 2024 |
Britain's wild republican decade
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Dec 06, 2024 |
Tudor England | 2. Daily life
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Dec 05, 2024 |
Kublai Khan: ruler of the waves
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Dec 04, 2024 |
Princes in the Tower: could this new discovery solve the mystery?
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Dec 03, 2024 |
The murders at Rillington Place: postwar London's grisliest crimes
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Dec 02, 2024 |
Tudor explorers: everything you wanted to know
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Dec 01, 2024 |
Nelson & Winnie: inside the Mandelas' marriage
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Nov 29, 2024 |
Tudor England | 1. Power and politics
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Nov 28, 2024 |
Tudor England: the big questions | Trailer
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Nov 27, 2024 |
A Victorian cult: inside the strange world of the Agapemone
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Nov 27, 2024 |
History behind the headlines: Trump's win – parallels with the past
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Nov 26, 2024 |
Sport's strangest tales
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Nov 25, 2024 |
Ancient Egyptian warfare: everything you wanted to know
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Nov 24, 2024 |
The bloody road to Rome: liberating Italy from the Nazis in WWII
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Nov 22, 2024 |
The invisible tracks that have shaped the world
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Nov 21, 2024 |
Should we stop talking about the crusades?
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Nov 20, 2024 |
Æthelred the Unready: life of the week
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Nov 19, 2024 |
The golden age of the country house
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Nov 18, 2024 |
Victorian schools: everything you wanted to know
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Nov 17, 2024 |
Gladiators: everything you wanted to know
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Nov 16, 2024 |
Nelson: a life of heroism and scandal
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Nov 15, 2024 |
Medieval make do and mend
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Nov 14, 2024 |
Thomas Cromwell: the triumph and tragedy of Henry VIII's right-hand man
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Nov 13, 2024 |
Joseph McCarthy: life of the week
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Nov 12, 2024 |
Gladiator tales
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Nov 11, 2024 |
The Brontës: everything you wanted to know
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Nov 10, 2024 |
Lord Lucan: the vanishing earl
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Nov 08, 2024 |
The Tyrant, the usurper and the hero | Henry V: hero
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Nov 07, 2024 |
How Stalin won WW2
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Nov 06, 2024 |
The Venerable Bede: life of the week
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Nov 05, 2024 |
Decoding Mary, Queen of Scots
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Nov 04, 2024 |
The Blitz: everything you wanted to know
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Nov 03, 2024 |
The gunpowder plot: everything you wanted to know
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Nov 02, 2024 |
Telling the story of modern Jerusalem
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Nov 01, 2024 |
The Tyrant, the usurper and the hero | Henry IV: usurper
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Oct 31, 2024 |
Satan & the sabbath: witchhunting in the Basque Country
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Oct 30, 2024 |
Florence Nightingale: life of the week
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Oct 29, 2024 |
Introducing History's Greatest Conspiracy Theories
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Oct 28, 2024 |
Cocaine: a Victorian sensation
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Oct 28, 2024 |
Medieval science: everything you wanted to know
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Oct 26, 2024 |
Halloween traditions: everything you wanted to know
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Oct 25, 2024 |
Medieval women: friendship, wanderlust and the medieval hustle
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Oct 24, 2024 |
The Tyrant, the usurper and the hero | Richard II: tyrant
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Oct 23, 2024 |
Chris Packham & Peter Frankopan: can history help tackle the climate crisis?
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Oct 22, 2024 |
History Behind the Headlines: political memoirs, fuel and access to nature
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Oct 21, 2024 |
Tudor spymaster: the secret machinations of Robert Cecil
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Oct 20, 2024 |
The Korean War: everything you wanted to know
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Oct 19, 2024 |
Roman slavery: a brutal life in the ancient empire
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Oct 17, 2024 |
1066: the battle for England | 4. the long and violent Norman Conquest
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Oct 16, 2024 |
Imperial spectacle: inside Britain's 1924 'Empire Exhibition'
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Oct 15, 2024 |
John Milton: life of the week
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Oct 14, 2024 |
Why did people kill for Hitler?
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Oct 13, 2024 |
The Cathars: everything you wanted to know
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Oct 12, 2024 |
Black British History: everything you wanted to know
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Oct 11, 2024 |
Shopping and snacking: a social history of the high street
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Oct 10, 2024 |
1066: the battle for England | 3. Three kings and three battles
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Oct 09, 2024 |
The race to identify all living creatures
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Oct 08, 2024 |
King John: life of the week
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Oct 07, 2024 |
Ordinary Vikings: hidden histories of the Nordic world
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Oct 06, 2024 |
Tea history: everything you wanted to know
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Oct 05, 2024 |
Victorian women detectives
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Oct 03, 2024 |
1066: the battle for England | 2. The power behind the Anglo-Saxon throne
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Oct 02, 2024 |
A hidden history of black civil rights
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Oct 01, 2024 |
Eleanor Roosevelt: life of the week
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Sep 30, 2024 |
How did the US get so many guns?
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Sep 29, 2024 |
Communism: everything you wanted to know
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Sep 28, 2024 |
Liberating WW2 Naples: triumph and tragedy
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Sep 26, 2024 |
1066: the battle for England | 1. Vikings, Normans and rebellious Anglo-Saxons
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Sep 25, 2024 |
Churchill's prewar crisis meetings
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Sep 24, 2024 |
Henry VII: life of the week
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Sep 23, 2024 |
Tokyo 1946: the war crime trial that shaped Japan's future
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Sep 22, 2024 |
The Stuarts: everything you wanted to know
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Sep 21, 2024 |
Hidden environmental histories of the last 500 years
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Sep 19, 2024 |
Ancient Egypt | 5. a lost world?
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Sep 18, 2024 |
Congo, Cold War & CIA plotting: the 1961 assassination that shook Africa
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Sep 17, 2024 |
Viking trade, Titanic and Olympic rings: history behind the headlines
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Sep 16, 2024 |
How ancient India transformed the world
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Sep 15, 2024 |
The Hittites: everything you wanted to know
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Sep 14, 2024 |
The Iranian embassy siege: an SAS hostage drama in London
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Sep 12, 2024 |
Ancient Egypt | 4. religion and death
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Sep 11, 2024 |
Native Americans: a history of power and survival
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Sep 10, 2024 |
Isambard Kingdom Brunel: life of the week
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Sep 09, 2024 |
The 1943 battle of Kursk – and its present-day echoes
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Sep 08, 2024 |
Medieval torture: everything you wanted to know
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Sep 07, 2024 |
Medieval documents in danger
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Sep 05, 2024 |
Ancient Egypt | 3. culture
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Sep 04, 2024 |
Our 10,000-year quest for equality
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Sep 03, 2024 |
Michelangelo: life of the week
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Sep 02, 2024 |
The Battle of Megiddo: ancient Egypt's greatest victory?
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Sep 01, 2024 |
Prehistoric stone circles: everything you want to know
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Aug 31, 2024 |
The plague that brought the Roman empire to its knees
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Aug 29, 2024 |
Ancient Egypt | 2. everyday life
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Aug 28, 2024 |
False rumps & rotten teeth: 400 years of bizarre beauty practices
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Aug 27, 2024 |
Emperor Vespasian: life of the week
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Aug 26, 2024 |
An audacious escape from slavery
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Aug 25, 2024 |
The Abbasid caliphate: everything you wanted to know
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Aug 24, 2024 |
Crusader criminals: how the Holy Land became a hotbed of lawlessness
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Aug 22, 2024 |
Ancient Egypt | 1. civilisation
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Aug 21, 2024 |
Ancient Egypt: the big questions | Trailer
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Aug 21, 2024 |
Gulag doctors: saving lives in Stalin's prison camps
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Aug 20, 2024 |
The far right in Britain: history behind the headlines
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Aug 19, 2024 |
Practical magic: curses, spells & cunning folk
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Aug 18, 2024 |
The history of migration: everything you wanted to know
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Aug 17, 2024 |
Eighteen-year-olds who changed history
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Aug 15, 2024 |
Toilets through time | 4. Victorian lavatories
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Aug 14, 2024 |
How games changed history
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Aug 13, 2024 |
George Orwell: life of the week
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Aug 12, 2024 |
Lines on a map: borders that shaped world history
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Aug 11, 2024 |
Tartan: everything you wanted to know
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Aug 10, 2024 |
Olympic History: everything you wanted to know
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Aug 09, 2024 |
Hidden labs, sex gardens & torture attics: secrets of British royal palaces
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Aug 08, 2024 |
Toilets through time | 3. Tudor garderobes
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Aug 07, 2024 |
Gulbadan Begum: princess, explorer, author
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Aug 06, 2024 |
Anne Frank: life of the week
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Aug 05, 2024 |
Stealing the Mona Lisa
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Aug 04, 2024 |
The Great Exhibition: everything you wanted to know
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Aug 03, 2024 |
Dismemberment & disgrace: the grisly fate of Simon de Montfort
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Aug 01, 2024 |
Toilets through time | 2. Medieval privies
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Jul 31, 2024 |
Has imperial history become too politicised?
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Jul 30, 2024 |
Francis Drake: life of the week
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Jul 29, 2024 |
Our long obsession with the end of the world
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Jul 28, 2024 |
The Grand Tour: everything you wanted to know
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Jul 27, 2024 |
Black Death: everything you wanted to know
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Jul 26, 2024 |
The Decameron: sex, plague, and a medieval Love Island
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Jul 25, 2024 |
Toilets through time | 1. Roman latrines
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Jul 24, 2024 |
Assassinations that shaped US history
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Jul 23, 2024 |
Is democracy doomed? History behind the headlines
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Jul 22, 2024 |
Catherine of Braganza: the Merrie Monarch's forgotten queen
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Jul 21, 2024 |
The Spanish Inquisition: everything you wanted to know
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Jul 20, 2024 |
1217: the year that (almost) changed English history
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Jul 18, 2024 |
Deeds not words | 6. Mission accomplished?
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Jul 17, 2024 |
Kindness & hostility: refugees in wartime Britain
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Jul 16, 2024 |
Catherine de' Medici: life of the week
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Jul 15, 2024 |
The suffragettes who fell in love
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Jul 14, 2024 |
Servants: everything you wanted to know
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Jul 13, 2024 |
Anxieties of the Edwardian age
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Jul 11, 2024 |
Deeds not words | 5. Burning down the house
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Jul 10, 2024 |
How the Plantagenets forged the English state
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Jul 09, 2024 |
Justinian: life of the week
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Jul 08, 2024 |
The woman who saved the children
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Jul 07, 2024 |
Victorian crime and punishment: everything you wanted to know
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Jul 06, 2024 |
How the Dreyfus Affair tore France apart
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Jul 04, 2024 |
Deeds not words | 4. Cat and mouse
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Jul 03, 2024 |
The surprising lives of ancient women
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Jul 02, 2024 |
Boudica: life of the week
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Jul 01, 2024 |
How Stalin ran rings round the west
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Jun 30, 2024 |
British general elections: everything you wanted to know
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Jun 29, 2024 |
Medieval keep fit
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Jun 27, 2024 |
Deeds not words | 3. Making a statement
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Jun 26, 2024 |
A 21st-century Holocaust trial
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Jun 25, 2024 |
Catherine Parr: life of the week
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Jun 24, 2024 |
Invisible ink & toad poison: tools of Elizabethan spycraft
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Jun 23, 2024 |
Chocolate history: everything you wanted to know
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Jun 22, 2024 |
Work-life balance: how our ancestors fought for free time
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Jun 20, 2024 |
Deeds not words | 2. Pankhurst family portrait
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Jun 19, 2024 |
Anne Boleyn: a modern woman?
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Jun 18, 2024 |
Historical apologies & female leaders: History behind the headlines
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Jun 17, 2024 |
Has WW2 become a national religion?
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Jun 16, 2024 |
Beowulf: everything you wanted to know
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Jun 15, 2024 |
Inside Bridgerton's ballrooms
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Jun 13, 2024 |
Deeds not words | 1. Battlelines are drawn
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Jun 12, 2024 |
Deeds not words | Trailer
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Jun 12, 2024 |
War, peace & cherry trees: finding hope after WW2
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Jun 11, 2024 |
Dwight D Eisenhower: life of the week
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Jun 10, 2024 |
Forging first editions: a 1930s crime caper
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Jun 09, 2024 |
The pilgrim fathers: everything you wanted to know
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Jun 08, 2024 |
Beastly Victorians: preventing animal cruelty in the 19th century
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Jun 06, 2024 |
D-Day: was Churchill really against the operation?
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Jun 05, 2024 |
D-Day: Land
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Jun 05, 2024 |
A 17th-century scandal & a writer's secret life
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Jun 04, 2024 |
Plato: life of the week
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Jun 03, 2024 |
Breastfeeding in the Middle Ages
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Jun 02, 2024 |
Death and mourning in Britain: everything you wanted to know
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Jun 01, 2024 |
Julian: the Roman emperor who (almost) changed the world
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May 30, 2024 |
D-Day: Sea
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May 29, 2024 |
A Soviet road trip through 1930s America
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May 28, 2024 |
Galileo: life of the week
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May 27, 2024 |
What was life like as a peasant?
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May 26, 2024 |
The history of museums: everything you wanted to know
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May 25, 2024 |
Forgotten women writers of the Renaissance
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May 23, 2024 |
D-Day: Air
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May 22, 2024 |
Cat crazy: the Victorian mania for moggies
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May 21, 2024 |
Maria Theresa: life of the week
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May 20, 2024 |
Agent Zo: spying against the Nazis
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May 19, 2024 |
The Terror: everything you wanted to know
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May 18, 2024 |
The real Lady Whistledown & the golden age of gossip
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May 16, 2024 |
WW2's greatest battles | 5. Guadalcanal
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May 15, 2024 |
A surprising history of sex between men
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May 14, 2024 |
History Behind the Headlines: student protests down the centuries
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May 13, 2024 |
Tudor ladies-in-waiting: the women who served Henry VIII's queens
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May 12, 2024 |
Ancient Greek theatre: everything you wanted to know
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May 11, 2024 |
The Tattooist of Auschwitz: is it ok to fictionalise the Holocaust?
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May 09, 2024 |
WW2's greatest battles | 4. El Alamein
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May 08, 2024 |
Shardlake: bringing the Tudor murder mystery to the screen
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May 07, 2024 |
Kublai Khan: life of the week
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May 06, 2024 |
Inside a Jim Crow asylum
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May 05, 2024 |
The Spartans: Everything You Wanted to Know
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May 04, 2024 |
Death by nostalgia: the curious history of a dangerous emotion
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May 02, 2024 |
WW2's greatest battles | 3. Battle of the Atlantic
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May 01, 2024 |
Smash hits: 17th-century style
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Apr 30, 2024 |
Benjamin Franklin: life of the week
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Apr 29, 2024 |
OJ Simpson: the trial that gripped the world
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Apr 28, 2024 |
Greg Jenner and Campbell Price delve into the curious and fascinating world of ancient Egyptian mummification
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Apr 27, 2024 |
The Magus: enlightened magician or Renaissance charlatan?
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Apr 25, 2024 |
WW2's greatest battles | 2. Stalingrad
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Apr 24, 2024 |
Aztec myths
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Apr 23, 2024 |
David Lloyd George: life of the week
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Apr 22, 2024 |
Graffiti's golden age: radicalism & romance in the 18th century
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Apr 21, 2024 |
Highwaymen: everything you wanted to know
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Apr 20, 2024 |
An African perspective on the history of Africa
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Apr 18, 2024 |
WW2's greatest battles | 1. Battle of Britain
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Apr 17, 2024 |
WW2's greatest battles | Trailer
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Apr 17, 2024 |
How Kissinger transformed the Cold War
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Apr 16, 2024 |
Lord Byron: life of the week
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Apr 15, 2024 |
Horrible Histories: 15 years of death, poo and talking rats
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Apr 14, 2024 |
Medieval medicine: everything you wanted to know
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Apr 13, 2024 |
Death & hubris in west Africa: how two British expeditions met with disaster
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Apr 11, 2024 |
Conspiracy Revisited: The JFK assassination – Oswald’s second murder
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Apr 10, 2024 |
Clotilda: the last slave ship to America
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Apr 09, 2024 |
History behind the headlines: the Bengal famine
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Apr 08, 2024 |
Spying in the Troubles: the murky world of double agents in Northern Ireland
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Apr 07, 2024 |
Welsh mythology: everything you wanted to know
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Apr 06, 2024 |
Tying the knot: 500 years of wedded bliss and marital misery
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Apr 04, 2024 |
Conspiracy Revisited: The JFK assassination – 95 per cent certain?
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Apr 03, 2024 |
The British empire's divisive legacy
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Apr 02, 2024 |
Saladin: life of the week
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Apr 01, 2024 |
Back in the USSR: the Soviet Sixties
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Mar 31, 2024 |
Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: everything you wanted to know
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Mar 31, 2024 |
Dinosaurs: a Victorian obsession
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Mar 29, 2024 |
Tiger Tamer | 6. battling against Bovril
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Mar 28, 2024 |
How was Elizabeth I shaped by her childhood?
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Mar 27, 2024 |
Joan of Arc: life of the week
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Mar 26, 2024 |
Leftovers: how our ancestors battled food waste
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Mar 25, 2024 |
WW1's eastern front: everything you wanted to know
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Mar 24, 2024 |
Eric 'Winkle' Brown: Britain's most extraordinary pilot
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Mar 22, 2024 |
Tiger Tamer | 5. crazy about wheelbarrows
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Mar 21, 2024 |
Will the real Jesus please stand up?
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Mar 20, 2024 |
Mary Wollstonecraft: life of the week
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Mar 19, 2024 |
An obscenity trial that shocked Victorian Britain
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Mar 18, 2024 |
The Capetians: everything you wanted to know
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Mar 17, 2024 |
Lothar II vs Theutberga: a marriage scandal that shook the ninth century
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Mar 15, 2024 |
Tiger Tamer | 4. celebrity pedestrian
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Mar 14, 2024 |
A political earthquake: Britain's first Labour government
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Mar 13, 2024 |
James VI and I: life of the week
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Mar 12, 2024 |
From Russia to Texas: the search for a Jewish homeland
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Mar 11, 2024 |
British Redcoats: everything you wanted to know
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Mar 10, 2024 |
The West's attempt to crush Bolshevik Russia
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Mar 08, 2024 |
Tiger Tamer | 3. would you let a tiger lick your face?
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Mar 07, 2024 |
Mary & George: the real history behind the new drama
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Mar 06, 2024 |
History Behind the Headlines: ageing politicians & new names for the London Overground
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Mar 05, 2024 |
The man who ran Auschwitz: the real story of The Zone of Interest
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Mar 04, 2024 |
Alcatraz: everything you wanted to know
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Mar 03, 2024 |
Plague, leprosy & murder: unlocking the secrets of medieval bones
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Mar 01, 2024 |
Tiger Tamer | 2. sail, steam & stormy seas
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Feb 29, 2024 |
The EU: from Maastricht to Brexit
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Feb 28, 2024 |
Rudyard Kipling: life of the week
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Feb 27, 2024 |
Winthrop Bell: a Canadian spy who predicted Nazi horrors
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Feb 26, 2024 |
Arts & Crafts movement: everything you wanted to know
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Feb 25, 2024 |
Stonewall: the 1969 fight for gay rights
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Feb 24, 2024 |
The Chinese migrants chasing an American dream
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Feb 23, 2024 |
The Tiger Tamer who went to sea | Trailer
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Feb 22, 2024 |
Tiger Tamer | 1. “the life of a dozen men”
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Feb 22, 2024 |
The Britons who rebuilt postwar Germany
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Feb 21, 2024 |
Christopher Columbus: life of the week
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Feb 20, 2024 |
Slavic Myths: vampires werewolves – and cabbages
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Feb 19, 2024 |
The Roman army: everything you wanted to know
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Feb 18, 2024 |
Chanel: glamour and controversy on the Riviera
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Feb 17, 2024 |
Victorian death rituals
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Feb 16, 2024 |
Conspiracy | 5. Legends of the Knights Templar
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Feb 15, 2024 |
Happily ever after? Love and marriage in Austen's era
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Feb 14, 2024 |
History Behind the Headlines: the Post Office, US elections and Alexander the Great
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Feb 13, 2024 |
Drag: a British history
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Feb 12, 2024 |
Medieval Ireland: everything you wanted to know
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Feb 11, 2024 |
Peking to Paris: the world’s first great motor race
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Feb 09, 2024 |
Conspiracy | 4. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
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Feb 08, 2024 |
Love: a weird & wonderful history
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Feb 07, 2024 |
Life of the week: the Duke of Wellington
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Feb 06, 2024 |
Ploughman's for the people: a culinary history of Britain
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Feb 05, 2024 |
Chivalry: everything you wanted to know
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Feb 04, 2024 |
Alexandria: the first modern city
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Feb 02, 2024 |
Conspiracy | 3. Who killed JFK?
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Feb 01, 2024 |
Masters of the Air: the real history behind the new show.
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Jan 31, 2024 |
Life of the week: Spartacus
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Jan 30, 2024 |
The West's enduring fascination with Asia
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Jan 29, 2024 |
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: everything you wanted to know
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Jan 28, 2024 |
Nicholas Winton: the 'British Schindler'
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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SALEM EPISODE 9: Conclusion
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Nov 07, 2021 |
SALEM EPISODE 8: Willful, weak-minded women?
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Nov 07, 2021 |
SALEM EPISODE 7: Quarrelsome neighbours & family tensions
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Nov 07, 2021 |
SALEM EPISODE 6: Chaos in the courtroom
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Nov 07, 2021 |
SALEM EPISODE 5: Satanic sabbaths and supernatural sins
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Nov 07, 2021 |
From chariots to e-scooters: transformations in transport
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Nov 06, 2021 |
Giving birth in the 17th century
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Nov 05, 2021 |
Cricket as a colonial weapon
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Nov 03, 2021 |
Living through the fall of communism
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Nov 02, 2021 |
Black cowboys on screen
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Nov 01, 2021 |
SALEM EPISODE 4: The pervasive power of Puritanism
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Oct 31, 2021 |
SALEM EPISODE 3: A ‘new Jerusalem’ on the edge of a wilderness
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Oct 31, 2021 |
SALEM EPISODE 2: How events spiralled out of control
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Oct 31, 2021 |
SALEM EPISODE 1: Introduction
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Oct 31, 2021 |
Ghosts, necromancy & the underworld in ancient Mesopotamia
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Oct 30, 2021 |
What would you ask a historian?
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Oct 29, 2021 |
COMING SOON Salem: investigating the witch trials
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Oct 28, 2021 |
Windows: an illuminating history
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Oct 27, 2021 |
How a ballerina survived the Gulag
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Oct 26, 2021 |
Afghanistan: a history of instability
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Oct 25, 2021 |
Egyptian pharaohs: everything you wanted to know
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Oct 24, 2021 |
Medieval ghost stories
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