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• A Nazi in Chile: did an SS commander work for Pinochet? (Thu, Apr 03, 2025)
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• Tariffs and trade wars: a history of economic warfare (Tue, Apr 01, 2025)
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• Funding cuts and culture wars: history behind the headlines (Mon, Mar 31, 2025)
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• Why we shouldn't see museum artefacts as 'stolen' (Sun, Mar 30, 2025)
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• The Belle Époque: everything you wanted to know (Sun, Mar 30, 2025)
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• Body in the basement: Dr Crippen and the 'crime of the century' (Fri, Mar 28, 2025)
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• The Philadelphia gun-runners who supplied the IRA (Wed, Mar 26, 2025)
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• Thomas Becket: life of week (Tue, Mar 25, 2025)
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• Why Africa's history is more than just the slave trade (Mon, Mar 24, 2025)
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• The Great Stink: everything you wanted to know (Sun, Mar 23, 2025)
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• Handel's Messiah: the scandalous birth of a classical masterpiece (Fri, Mar 21, 2025)
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• Women killers of the early modern era (Wed, Mar 19, 2025)
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• Rosa Luxemburg: life of the week (Tue, Mar 18, 2025)
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• Women's hidden role in religious reformation (Mon, Mar 17, 2025)
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• The history of British homes: everything you wanted to know (Sun, Mar 16, 2025)
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• Wolfmen and amazons: why did the Greeks and Romans demonise their neighbours? (Fri, Mar 14, 2025)
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• Reform and rebellion in the reign of Henry III (Wed, Mar 12, 2025)
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• Emily Hobhouse: life of the week (Tue, Mar 11, 2025)
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• Cheese-rolling, horse skulls & morris dancers: Britain's strange folk customs (Mon, Mar 10, 2025)
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• Roman medicine: everything you wanted to know (Sun, Mar 09, 2025)
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• What's the state of women's history in 2025? (Fri, Mar 07, 2025)
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• Medieval murder mystery: who killed King James III? (Wed, Mar 05, 2025)
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• Virginia Woolf: life of the week (Tue, Mar 04, 2025)
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• Medieval murders most foul (Mon, Mar 03, 2025)
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• The Assyrians: everything you wanted to know (Sun, Mar 02, 2025)
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• King Leopold's elephant expedition: a story of colonialism in Congo (Fri, Feb 28, 2025)
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• Introducing History's Greatest Battles | New Podcast (Thu, Feb 27, 2025)
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• What did the Romans wear? (Wed, Feb 26, 2025)
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• Frederick Barbarossa: life of the week (Tue, Feb 25, 2025)
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• Sexuality on trial in colonial America (Mon, Feb 24, 2025)
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• Mining history: everything you wanted to know (Sun, Feb 23, 2025)
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• Bruisers and bare knuckles: the brutal world of Victorian boxing (Fri, Feb 21, 2025)
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• Did Britain really rule the waves? (Wed, Feb 19, 2025)
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• Jane Austen: life of the week (Tue, Feb 18, 2025)
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• The princess who fled Romanov Russia (Mon, Feb 17, 2025)
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• The Opium Wars: everything you wanted to know (Sun, Feb 16, 2025)
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• Rome's most scandalous emperors (Fri, Feb 14, 2025)
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• The royal threesome that rocked Anglo-Saxon England (Wed, Feb 12, 2025)
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• Are we celebrating the wrong Magna Carta? (Tue, Feb 11, 2025)
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• The forgotten JFK assassination plot (Mon, Feb 10, 2025)
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• The Indian Rebellion of 1857: everything you wanted to know (Sun, Feb 09, 2025)
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• From dinosaurs to Godzilla: a 15,000-year history of monsters (Fri, Feb 07, 2025)
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• How monasteries powered medieval Europe (Wed, Feb 05, 2025)
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• Greenland, forest fires and presidential power: history behind the headlines (Tue, Feb 04, 2025)
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• George Villiers: from royal favourite to enemy number one (Mon, Feb 03, 2025)
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• Extinct animals: everything you wanted to know (Sun, Feb 02, 2025)
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• Agony and ecstasy: the lives of mystics (Fri, Jan 31, 2025)
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• How medicine became a moneymaker (Thu, Jan 30, 2025)
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• Carolingians in crisis: the medieval civil war that shaped Europe (Wed, Jan 29, 2025)
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• Charles Dickens: life of the week (Tue, Jan 28, 2025)
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• Murder in WW2 London (Mon, Jan 27, 2025)
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• British TV history: everything you wanted to know (Sun, Jan 26, 2025)
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• The big questions of the Holocaust (Sat, Jan 25, 2025)
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• Happiness: history of an emotion (Fri, Jan 24, 2025)
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• The 1453 fall of Constantinople: capturing the Byzantine capital (Thu, Jan 23, 2025)
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• Inside the mind of the Third Reich (Wed, Jan 22, 2025)
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• Sacagawea: life of the week (Tue, Jan 21, 2025)
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• Women's bodies: an unreliable history (Mon, Jan 20, 2025)
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• Ancient Mesopotamia: everything you wanted to know (Sun, Jan 19, 2025)
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• Who moulded Winston Churchill? (Sat, Jan 18, 2025)
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• Elizabethan London: a multicultural melting pot (Fri, Jan 17, 2025)
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• Strange stories of medieval saints (Thu, Jan 16, 2025)
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• What is the greatest historical movie of all time? (Wed, Jan 15, 2025)
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• Nell Gwyn: life of the week (Tue, Jan 14, 2025)
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• How pigs caused a stink in medieval England (Mon, Jan 13, 2025)
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• The Hanseatic League: everything you wanted to know (Sun, Jan 12, 2025)
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• Secret forceps & pig bladders: medical objects through time (Fri, Jan 10, 2025)
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• How Roman roads transformed Europe (Thu, Jan 09, 2025)
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• Hotel Lux: the guesthouse of world revolution (Wed, Jan 08, 2025)
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• Introducing History's Greatest Scandals | New Podcast (Tue, Jan 07, 2025)
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• Susan B Anthony: life of the week (Tue, Jan 07, 2025)
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• How the compass became a political weapon (Mon, Jan 06, 2025)
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• Medieval towns: everything you wanted to know (Sun, Jan 05, 2025)
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• Harold Wilson: the rock 'n' roll prime minister (Fri, Jan 03, 2025)
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• Who is buried at Sutton Hoo? (Thu, Jan 02, 2025)
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• Sex and Christianity: 2,000 years of love and fury (Wed, Jan 01, 2025)
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• Catherine the Great: life of the week (Tue, Dec 31, 2024)
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• The Second Norman Conquest (Mon, Dec 30, 2024)
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• The Carolingians: everything you wanted to know (Sun, Dec 29, 2024)
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• The SAS in WW2: everything you wanted to know (Sat, Dec 28, 2024)
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• Arnhem: 24 hours that shattered Allied dreams (Fri, Dec 27, 2024)
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• Tudor England | 5. The wider world (Thu, Dec 26, 2024)
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• 2024 in review: history behind the headlines (Tue, Dec 24, 2024)
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• Shipwrecks: a porthole to the past (Mon, Dec 23, 2024)
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• Quaker history: everything you wanted to know (Sun, Dec 22, 2024)
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• Christmas history: everything you wanted to know (Sat, Dec 21, 2024)
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• How convict labour forged empires (Fri, Dec 20, )( 00:00:00 2024, -0000)
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• Tudor England | 4. Religion and superstition (Thu, Dec 19, 2024)
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• Secrets of medieval churches (Wed, Dec 18, 2024)
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• Isabella of Castile: life of the week (Tue, Dec 17, 2024)
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• The massacre that shattered the old Ottoman world (Mon, Dec 16, 2024)
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• Underwear history: everything you wanted to know (Sun, Dec 15, 2024)
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• Medieval relic hunters: the quest for Notre-Dame's crown of thorns (Fri, Dec 13, 2024)
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• Tudor England | 3. Culture and innovation (Thu, Dec 12, 2024)
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• Tempting treats & festive feats: christmas shopping down the ages (Wed, Dec 11, 2024)
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• Robert the Bruce: life of the week (Tue, Dec 10, 2024)
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• Germany's postwar reinvention (Mon, Dec 09, 2024)
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• Robot history: everything you wanted to know (Sun, Dec 08, 2024)
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• Britain's wild republican decade (Fri, Dec 06, 2024)
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• Tudor England | 2. Daily life (Thu, Dec 05, 2024)
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• Kublai Khan: ruler of the waves (Wed, Dec 04, 2024)
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• Princes in the Tower: could this new discovery solve the mystery? (Tue, Dec 03, 2024)
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• The murders at Rillington Place: postwar London's grisliest crimes (Mon, Dec 02, 2024)
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• Tudor explorers: everything you wanted to know (Sun, Dec 01, 2024)
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• Nelson & Winnie: inside the Mandelas' marriage (Fri, Nov 29, 2024)
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• Tudor England | 1. Power and politics (Thu, Nov 28, 2024)
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• Tudor England: the big questions | Trailer (Wed, Nov 27, 2024)
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• A Victorian cult: inside the strange world of the Agapemone (Wed, Nov 27, 2024)
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• History behind the headlines: Trump's win – parallels with the past (Tue, Nov 26, 2024)
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• Sport's strangest tales (Mon, Nov 25, 2024)
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• Ancient Egyptian warfare: everything you wanted to know (Sun, Nov 24, 2024)
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• The bloody road to Rome: liberating Italy from the Nazis in WWII (Fri, Nov 22, 2024)
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• The invisible tracks that have shaped the world (Thu, Nov 21, 2024)
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• Should we stop talking about the crusades? (Wed, Nov 20, 2024)
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• Æthelred the Unready: life of the week (Tue, Nov 19, 2024)
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• The golden age of the country house (Mon, Nov 18, 2024)
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• Victorian schools: everything you wanted to know (Sun, Nov 17, 2024)
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• Gladiators: everything you wanted to know (Sat, , )(16 2024 Nov, 00:00:00)
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• Nelson: a life of heroism and scandal (Fri, Nov 15, 2024)
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• Medieval make do and mend (Thu, Nov 14, 2024)
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• Thomas Cromwell: the triumph and tragedy of Henry VIII's right-hand man (Wed, Nov 13, 2024)
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• Joseph McCarthy: life of the week (Tue, Nov 12, 2024)
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• Gladiator tales (Mon, Nov 11, 202)(4 -0000 00:00:00, )
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• The Brontës: everything you wanted to know (Sun, Nov 10, 2024)
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• Lord Lucan: the vanishing earl (Fri, Nov 08, 2024)
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• The Tyrant, the usurper and the hero | Henry V: hero (Thu, Nov 07, 2024)
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• How Stalin won WW2 (Wed, Nov 06, 2024)
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• The Venerable Bede: life of the week (Tue, Nov 05, 2024)
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• Decoding Mary, Queen of Scots (Mon, Nov 04, 2024)
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• The Blitz: everything you wanted to know (Sun, Nov 03, 2024)
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• The gunpowder plot: everything you wanted to know (Sat, Nov 02, 2024)
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• Telling the story of modern Jerusalem (Fri, Nov 01, 2024)
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• The Tyrant, the usurper and the hero | Henry IV: usurper (Thu, Oct 31, 2024)
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• Satan & the sabbath: witchhunting in the Basque Country (Wed, Oct 30, 2024)
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• Florence Nightingale: life of the week (Tue, Oct 29, 2024)
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• Introducing History's Greatest Conspiracy Theories (Mon, Oct 28, 2024)
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• Cocaine: a Victorian sensation (Mon, Oct 28, 2024)
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• Medieval science: everything you wanted to know (Sat, Oct 26, 2024)
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• Halloween traditions: everything you wanted to know (Fri, Oct 25, 2024)
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• Medieval women: friendship, wanderlust and the medieval hustle (Thu, Oct 24, 2024)
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• The Tyrant, the usurper and the hero | Richard II: tyrant (Wed, Oct 23, 2024)
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• Chris Packham & Peter Frankopan: can history help tackle the climate crisis? (Tue, Oct 22, 202)(4 -0000 23:00:00, )
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• History Behind the Headlines: political memoirs, fuel and access to nature (Mon, Oct 21, 2024)
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• Tudor spymaster: the secret machinations of Robert Cecil (Sun, Oct 20, 2024)
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• The Korean War: everything you wanted to know (Sat, Oct 19, 2024)
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• Roman slavery: a brutal life in the ancient empire (Thu, Oct 17, 2024)
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• 1066: the battle for England | 4. the long and violent Norman Conquest (Wed, Oct 16, 2024)
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• Imperial spectacle: inside Britain's 1924 'Empire Exhibition' (Tue, Oct 15, 2024)
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• John Milton: life of the week (Mon, Oct 14, 2024)
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• Why did people kill for Hitler? (Sun, Oct 13, 2024)
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• The Cathars: everything you wanted to know (Sat, Oct 12, 2024)
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• Black British History: everything you wanted to know (Fri, Oct 11, 2024)
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• Shopping and snacking: a social history of the high street (Thu, Oct 10, 2024)
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• 1066: the battle for England | 3. Three kings and three battles (Wed, Oct 09, 2024)
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• The race to identify all living creatures (Tue, Oct 08, 2024)
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• King John: life of the week (Mon, Oct 07, 2024)
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• Ordinary Vikings: hidden histories of the Nordic world (Sun, Oct 06, 2024)
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• Tea history: everything you wanted to know (Sat, Oct 05, 2024)
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• Victorian women detectives (Thu, Oct 03, 2024)
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• 1066: the battle for England | 2. The power behind the Anglo-Saxon throne (Wed, Oct 02, 2024)
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• A hidden history of black civil rights (Tue, Oct 01, 2024)
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• Eleanor Roosevelt: life of the week (Mon, Sep 30, 2024)
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• How did the US get so many guns? (Sun, Sep 29, 2024)
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• Communism: everything you wanted to know (Sat, Sep 28, 2024)
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• Liberating WW2 Naples: triumph and tragedy (Thu, Sep 26, 2024)
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• 1066: the battle for England | 1. Vikings, Normans and rebellious Anglo-Saxons (Wed, Sep 25, 2024)
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• Churchill's prewar crisis meetings (Tue, Sep 24, 2024)
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• Henry VII: life of the week (Mon, Sep 23, 2024)
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• Tokyo 1946: the war crime trial that shaped Japan's future (Sun, Sep 22, 2024)
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• The Stuarts: everything you wanted to know (Sat, Sep 21, 2024)
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• Hidden environmental histories of the last 500 years (Thu, Sep 19, 2024)
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• Ancient Egypt | 5. a lost world? (Wed, Sep 18, 2024)
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• Congo, Cold War & CIA plotting: the 1961 assassination that shook Africa (Tue, Sep 17, 2024)
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• Viking trade, Titanic and Olympic rings: history behind the headlines (Mon, Sep 16, 2024)
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• How ancient India transformed the world (Sun, Sep 15, 2024)
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• The Hittites: everything you wanted to know (Sat, Sep 14, 2024)
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• The Iranian embassy siege: an SAS hostage drama in London (Thu, Sep 12, 2024)
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• Ancient Egypt | 4. religion and death (Wed, Sep 11, 2024)
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• Native Americans: a history of power and survival (Tue, Sep 10, 2024)
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• Isambard Kingdom Brunel: life of the week (Mon, Sep 09, 2024)
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• The 1943 battle of Kursk – and its present-day echoes (Sun, Sep 08, 2024)
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• Medieval torture: everything you wanted to know (Sat, Sep 07, 2024)
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• Medieval documents in danger (Thu, Sep 05, 2024)
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• Ancient Egypt | 3. culture (Wed, Sep 04, 2024)
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• Our 10,000-year quest for equality (Tue, Sep 03, 2024)
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• Michelangelo: life of the week (Mon, Sep 02, 2024)
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• The Battle of Megiddo: ancient Egypt's greatest victory? (Sun, Sep 01, 2024)
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• Prehistoric stone circles: everything you want to know (Sat, Aug 31, 2024)
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• The plague that brought the Roman empire to its knees (Thu, Aug 29, 2024)
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• Ancient Egypt | 2. everyday life (Wed, Aug 28, 2024)
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• False rumps & rotten teeth: 400 years of bizarre beauty practices (Tue, Aug 27, 2024)
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• Emperor Vespasian: life of the week (Mon, Aug 26, 2024)
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• An audacious escape from slavery (Sun, Aug 25, 2024)
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• The Abbasid caliphate: everything you wanted to know (Sat, Aug 24, 2024)
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• Crusader criminals: how the Holy Land became a hotbed of lawlessness (Thu, Aug 22, 2024)
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• Ancient Egypt | 1. civilisation (Wed, Aug 21, 2024)
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• Ancient Egypt: the big questions | Trailer (Wed, Aug 21, 2024)
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• Gulag doctors: saving lives in Stalin's prison camps (Tue, Aug 20, 2024)
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• The far right in Britain: history behind the headlines (Mon, Aug 19, 2024)
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• Practical magic: curses, spells & cunning folk (Sun, Aug 18, 2024)
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• The history of migration: everything you wanted to know (Sat, Aug 17, 2024)
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• Eighteen-year-olds who changed history (Thu, Aug 15, 2024)
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• Toilets through time | 4. Victorian lavatories (Wed, Aug 14, 2024)
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• How games changed history (Tue, Aug 13, 2024)
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• George Orwell: life of the week (Mon, Aug 12, 2024)
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• Lines on a map: borders that shaped world history (Sun, Aug 11, 2024)
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• Tartan: everything you wanted to know (Sat, Aug 10, 2024)
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• Olympic History: everything you wanted to know (Fri, Aug 09, 2024)
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• Hidden labs, sex gardens & torture attics: secrets of British royal palaces (Thu, Aug 08, 2024)
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• Toilets through time | 3. Tudor garderobes (Wed, Aug 07, 2024)
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• Gulbadan Begum: princess, explorer, author (Tue, Aug 06, 2024)
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• Anne Frank: life of the week (Mon, Aug 05, 2024)
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• Stealing the Mona Lisa (Sun, Aug 04, 2024)
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• The Great Exhibition: everything you wanted to know (Sat, Aug 03, 2024)
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• Dismemberment & disgrace: the grisly fate of Simon de Montfort (Thu, Aug 01, 2024)(:00:00 -0000, )
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• Toilets through time | 2. Medieval privies (Wed, Jul 31, 2024)
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• Has imperial history become too politicised? (Tue, Jul 30, 2024)
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• Francis Drake: life of the week (Mon, Jul 29, 2024)
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• Our long obsession with the end of the world (Sun, Jul 28, 2024)
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• The Grand Tour: everything you wanted to know (Sat, Jul 27, 2024)
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• Black Death: everything you wanted to know (Fri, Jul 26, 2024)
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• The Decameron: sex, plague, and a medieval Love Island (Thu, Jul 25, 2024)
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• Toilets through time | 1. Roman latrines (Wed, Jul 24, 2024)
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• Assassinations that shaped US history (Tue, Jul 23, 2024)(23:00:00 -0000, )
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• Is democracy doomed? History behind the headlines (Mon, Jul 22, 2024)
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• Catherine of Braganza: the Merrie Monarch's forgotten queen (Sun, Jul 21, 2024)
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• The Spanish Inquisition: everything you wanted to know (Sat, Jul 20, 2024)
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• 1217: the year that (almost) changed English history (Thu, Jul 18, 2024)
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• Deeds not words | 6. Mission accomplished? (Wed, Jul 17, 2024)
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• Kindness & hostility: refugees in wartime Britain (Tue, Jul 16, 2024)
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• Catherine de' Medici: life of the week (Mon, Jul 15, 2024)
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• The suffragettes who fell in love (Sun, Jul 14, 2024)
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• Servants: everything you wanted to know (Sat, Jul 13, 2024)
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• Anxieties of the Edwardian age (Thu, Jul 11, 2024)
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• Deeds not words | 5. Burning down the house (Wed, Jul 10, 2024)
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• How the Plantagenets forged the English state (Tue, Jul 09, 2024)
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• Justinian: life of the week (Mon, Jul 08, 2024)
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• The woman who saved the children (Sun, Jul 07, 2024)
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• Victorian crime and punishment: everything you wanted to know (Sat, Jul 06, 2024)
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• How the Dreyfus Affair tore France apart (Thu, Jul 04, 2024)
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• Deeds not words | 4. Cat and mouse (Wed, Jul 03, 2024)
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• The surprising lives of ancient women (Tue, Jul 02, 2024)
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• Boudica: life of the week (Mon, Jul 01, 2024)
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• How Stalin ran rings round the west (Sun, Jun 30, 2024)
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• British general elections: everything you wanted to know (Sat, Jun 29, 2024)
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• Medieval keep fit (Thu, Jun 27, 2024)
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• Deeds not words | 3. Making a statement (Wed, Jun 26, 2024)
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• A 21st-century Holocaust trial (Tue, Jun 25, 2024)
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• Catherine Parr: life of the week (Mon, Jun 24, 2024)
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• Invisible ink & toad poison: tools of Elizabethan spycraft (Sun, Jun 23, 2024)
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• Chocolate history: everything you wanted to know (Sat, Jun 22, 2024)
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• Work-life balance: how our ancestors fought for free time (Thu, Jun 20, 2024)
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• Deeds not words | 2. Pankhurst family portrait (Wed, Jun 19, 2024)
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• Anne Boleyn: a modern woman? (Tue, Jun 18, 2024)
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• Historical apologies & female leaders: History behind the headlines (Mon, Jun 17, 2024)
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• Has WW2 become a national religion? (Sun, Jun 16, 2024)
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• Beowulf: everything you wanted to know (Sat, Jun 15, 2024)
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• Inside Bridgerton's ballrooms (Thu, Jun 13, 2024)
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• Deeds not words | 1. Battlelines are drawn (Wed, Jun 12, 2024)
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• Deeds not words | Trailer (Wed, Jun 12, 2024)
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• War, peace & cherry trees: finding hope after WW2 (Tue, Jun 11, 2024)
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• Dwight D Eisenhower: life of the week (Mon, Jun 10, 2024)
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• Forging first editions: a 1930s crime caper (Sun, Jun 09, 2024)
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• The pilgrim fathers: everything you wanted to know (Sat, Jun 08, 2024)
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• Beastly Victorians: preventing animal cruelty in the 19th century (Thu, Jun 06, 2024)
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• D-Day: was Churchill really against the operation? (Wed, Jun 05, 2024)
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• D-Day: Land (Wed, Jun 05, 2024)
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• A 17th-century scandal & a writer's secret life (Tue, Jun 04, 2024)
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• Plato: life of the week (Mon, Jun 03, 2024)
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• Breastfeeding in the Middle Ages (Sun, Jun 02, 2024)
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• Death and mourning in Britain: everything you wanted to know (Sat, Jun 01, 2024)
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• Julian: the Roman emperor who (almost) changed the world (Thu, May 30, 2024)
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• D-Day: Sea (Wed, May 29, 2024)
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• A Soviet road trip through 1930s America (Tue, May 28, 2024)
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• Galileo: life of the week (Mon, May 27, 2024)
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• What was life like as a peasant? (Sun, May 26, 2024)
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• The history of museums: everything you wanted to know (Sat, May 25, 2024)
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• Forgotten women writers of the Renaissance (Thu, May 23, 2024)
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• D-Day: Air (Wed, May 22, 2024)
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• Cat crazy: the Victorian mania for moggies (Tue, May 21, 2024)
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• Maria Theresa: life of the week (Mon, May 20, 2024)
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• Agent Zo: spying against the Nazis (Sun, May 19, 2024)
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• The Terror: everything you wanted to know (Sat, May 18, 2024)
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• The real Lady Whistledown & the golden age of gossip (Thu, May 16, 2024)
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• WW2's greatest battles | 5. Guadalcanal (Wed, May 15, 2024)
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• A surprising history of sex between men (Tue, May 14, 2024)
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• History Behind the Headlines: student protests down the centuries (Mon, May 13, 2024)
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• Tudor ladies-in-waiting: the women who served Henry VIII's queens (Sun, May 12, 2024)
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• Ancient Greek theatre: everything you wanted to know (Sat, May 11, 2024)
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• The Tattooist of Auschwitz: is it ok to fictionalise the Holocaust? (Thu, May 09, 2024)
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• WW2's greatest battles | 4. El Alamein (Wed, May 08, 2024)
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• Shardlake: bringing the Tudor murder mystery to the screen (Tue, May 07, 2024)
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• Kublai Khan: life of the week (Mon, May 06, 2024)
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• Inside a Jim Crow asylum (Sun, May 05, 2024)
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• The Spartans: Everything You Wanted to Know (Sat, May 04, 2024)
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• Death by nostalgia: the curious history of a dangerous emotion (Thu, May 02, 2024)
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• WW2's greatest battles | 3. Battle of the Atlantic (Wed, May 01, 2024)
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• Smash hits: 17th-century style (Tue, Apr 30, 2024)
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• Benjamin Franklin: life of the week (Mon, Apr 29, 2024)
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• OJ Simpson: the trial that gripped the world (Sun, Apr 28, 2024)
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• Greg Jenner and Campbell Price delve into the curious and fascinating world of ancient Egyptian mummification (Sat, Apr 27, 2024)
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• The Magus: enlightened magician or Renaissance charlatan? (Thu, Apr 25, 2024)
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• WW2's greatest battles | 2. Stalingrad (Wed, Apr 24, 2024)
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• Aztec myths (Tue, Apr 23, 2024)
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• David Lloyd George: life of the week (Mon, Apr 22, 2024)
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• Graffiti's golden age: radicalism & romance in the 18th century (Sun, Apr 21, 2024)
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• Highwaymen: everything you wanted to know (Sat, Apr 20, 2024)
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• An African perspective on the history of Africa (Thu, Apr 18, 2024)
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• WW2's greatest battles | 1. Battle of Britain (Wed, Apr 17, 2024)
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• WW2's greatest battles | Trailer (Wed, Apr 17, 2024)
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• How Kissinger transformed the Cold War (Tue, Apr 16, 2024)
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• Lord Byron: life of the week (Mon, Apr 15, 2024)
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• Horrible Histories: 15 years of death, poo and talking rats (Sun, Apr 14, 2024)
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• Medieval medicine: everything you wanted to know (Sat, Apr 13, 2024)
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• Death & hubris in west Africa: how two British expeditions met with disaster (Thu, Apr 11, 2024)
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• Conspiracy Revisited: The JFK assassination – Oswald’s second murder (Wed, Apr 10, 2024)
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• Clotilda: the last slave ship to America (Tue, Apr 09, 2024)
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• History behind the headlines: the Bengal famine (Mon, Apr 08, 2024)
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• Spying in the Troubles: the murky world of double agents in Northern Ireland (Sun, Apr 07, 2024)
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• Welsh mythology: everything you wanted to know (Sat, Apr 06, 2024)
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• Tying the knot: 500 years of wedded bliss and marital misery (Thu, Apr 04, 2024)
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• Conspiracy Revisited: The JFK assassination – 95 per cent certain? (Wed, Apr 03, 2024)
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• The British empire's divisive legacy (Tue, Apr 02, 2024)
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• Saladin: life of the week (Mon, Apr 01, 2024)
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• Bernard Cornwell on The Last Kingdom’s finale and the next Sharpe (Fri, Nov 20, 2020)
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• Women in black: the surprising history of widows (Wed, Nov 11, 2020)
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• Inside the Viking mind (Fri, Nov 06, 2020)
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• Escaping Nazi-occupied Europe (Thu, Nov 05, 2020)
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• The White Ship: a medieval royal tragedy (Wed, Nov 04, 2020)
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• The Regency era: everything you wanted to know (Sun, Oct 25, 2020)
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• The French Revolution: Everything you need to know (Sun, Oct 18, 2020)
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• Everything you ever wanted to know about medieval daily life, but were afraid to ask (Sun, Oct 11, 2020)
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• Everything you ever wanted to know about the history of Japan, but were afraid to ask (Sun, Oct 04, 2020)
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• Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944 (Sat, Oct 03, 2020)
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• Everything you ever wanted to know about the Neanderthals, but were afraid to ask (Sun, Sep 27, 2020)
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• Everything you ever wanted to know about the East India Company, but were afraid to ask (Sun, Sep 20, 2020)
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• Everything you ever wanted to know about the Suffragettes, but were afraid to ask (Sun, Sep 13, 2020)
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• Scythians: Warrior Nomads of the Steppe (Sat, Sep 12, 2020)
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• Everything you ever wanted to know about the legends of King Arthur, but were afraid to ask (Sun, Sep 06, 2020)
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• Everything you ever wanted to know about the Aztecs, but were afraid to ask (Sun, Aug 23, 2020)
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• Victory in the east (Fri, Aug 14, 2020)
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• Everything you ever wanted to know about Ancient Greece, but were afraid to ask (part 2) (Sun, Aug 02, 2020)
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• Hadley Freeman on a 20th-century family history (Mon, Mar 09, 2020)
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• The death of Kitchener: a World War One mystery (Mon, Oct 28, 2019)
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• Monarchy and faith in Tudor England (Mon, Jun 03, 2019)
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• Rachel Reeves on women who changed politics (Thu, May 30, 2019)
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• Jacob Rees-Mogg on the Victorians (Mon, May 27, 2019)
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• Women in the 1960s (Thu, May 23, 2019)
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• Gentleman Jack (Mon, May 20, 2019)
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• Jared Diamond on countries in crisis (Thu, May 16, 2019)
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• Secrets of Britains castles (Mon, May 13, 2019)
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• The Rise and Fall of the Boleyns (Thu, May 09, 2019)
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• Women who made modern Britain (Mon, May 06, 2019)
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• How population has shaped world history (Thu, May 02, 2019)
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• The landscape of England (Mon, Apr 29, 2019)
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• The Amritsar assassin (Thu, Apr 25, 2019)
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• Letters from World War Two leaders (Mon, Apr 22, 2019)
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• Notre-Dame (Thu, Apr 18, 2019)
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• Melvyn Bragg on Heloise and Abelard (Mon, Apr 15, 2019)
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• Exploring Britain’s cathedrals (Thu, Apr 11, 2019)
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• The Scottish Clearances (Mon, Apr 08, 2019)
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• King John: medieval monster (Thu, Apr 04, 2019)
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• World War Two's 'ordinary' soldiers (Mon, Apr 01, 2019)
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• Rethinking the crusades (Thu, Mar 28, 2019)(0 , )
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• The women killed by Jack the Ripper (Mon, Mar 25, 2019)
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• The global Vikings (Thu, Mar 21, 2019)
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• Henry VI: terrible king (Mon, Mar 18, 2019)
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• Churchill's navy (Thu, Mar 14, 2019)
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• Victorian murder scandal (Mon, Mar 11, 2019)
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• Rutger Bregman: historian in the news (Thu, Mar 07, 2019)
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• King George V at war (Mon, Mar 04, 2019)
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• Schools through time (Thu, Feb 28, 2019)
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• Bart van Es on The Cut Out Girl (Mon, Feb 25, 2019)
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• Medieval warrior queen (Thu, Feb 21, 2019)
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• A global history of philosophy (Mon, Feb 18, 2019)
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• Love in Georgian times (Thu, Feb 14, 2019)
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• Eric Hobsbawm: history and politics (Mon, Feb 11, 2019)
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• The story of modern Japan (Thu, Feb 07, 2019)
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• War and music (Mon, Feb 04, 2019)
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• Bonus Episode: How technology is changing politics (Sat, Feb 02, 2019)
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• A Roman woman of great power (Thu, Jan 31, 2019)
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• World-changing women (Mon, Jan 28, 2019)
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• Legacies of the Holocaust (Thu, Jan 24, 2019)
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• Diversity in history (Mon, Jan 21, 2019)
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• The story of the Hurricane (Thu, Jan 17, 2019)
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• Mary, Queen of Scots’ tragic life (Mon, Jan 14, 2019)
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• The true history of The Favourite (Thu, Jan 10, 2019)
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• Remarkable women through history (Mon, Jan 07, 2019)
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• Egypt’s lost tombs (Thu, Jan 03, 2019)
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• Medieval civil war (Mon, Dec 31, 2018)
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• Indians in World War One (Thu, Dec 27, 2018)
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• 2018 Christmas history quiz (Mon, Dec 24, 2018)
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• Bess of Hardwick: a Tudor success story (Thu, Dec 20, 2018)
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• Wonders of the Middle Ages (Mon, Dec 17, 2018)
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• Letters that changed the world (Thu, Dec 13, 2018)
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• Black radicalism with Kehinde Andrews (Mon, Dec 10, 2018)
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• Napoleon: the insecure emperor (Thu, Dec 06, 2018)
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• History in colour (Mon, Dec 03, 2018)
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• Walter Ralegh: enemy of the state (Thu, Nov 29, 2018)
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• The Germans who fought Hitler (Mon, Nov 26, 2018)
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• Hunting Britain’s Nazis (Thu, Nov 22, 2018)
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• Tales from D-Day (Mon, Nov 19, 2018)
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• Bernard Cornwell on the Last Kingdom (Thu, Nov 15, 2018)
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• Nietzsche’s dangerous ideas (Mon, Nov 12, 2018)
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• Dan Snow on shell shock (Thu, Nov 08, 2018)
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• The end of the First World War (Mon, Nov 05, 2018)
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• Mike Leigh on Peterloo (Thu, Nov 01, 2018)
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• The Peterloo Massacre (Mon, Oct 29, 2018)
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• Anglo-Saxon treasures (Thu, Oct 25, 2018)
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• Thomas Cromwell reconsidered (Mon, Oct 22, 2018)
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• A new life of Churchill (Thu, Oct 18, 2018)
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• Peter Jackson on the First World War (Mon, Oct 15, 2018)
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• Adventures in Iceland (Thu, Oct 11, 2018)
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• Brexit and American independence (Mon, Oct 08, 2018)
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• Bonus Episode: Identifying Jack the Ripper (Sun, Oct 07, 2018)
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• The Nazi on the run (Fri, Oct 05, 2018)
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• The spy who changed the cold war (Mon, Oct 01, 2018)
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• Queen Victoria by Lucy Worsley (Thu, Sep 27, 2018)
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• Neil Oliver’s history of the British Isles (Mon, Sep 24, 2018)
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• The good war? (Thu, Sep 20, 2018)
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• The extraordinary history of ordinary things (Mon, Sep 17, 2018)
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• A half-hour history of Europe (Thu, Sep 13, 2018)
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• Dissent through the centuries (Mon, Sep 10, 2018)
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• Who should we commemorate? (Thu, Sep 06, 2018)
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• Scots and Catalans (Mon, Sep 03, 2018)
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• 100 women who changed the world (Thu, Aug 30, 2018)
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• Charles de Gaulle reconsidered (Tue, Aug 28, 2018)
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• Female spies of the Civil War era (Thu, Aug 23, 2018)
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• Captain Cook’s Endeavour (Mon, Aug 20, 2018)
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• Dan Jones on the secrets of popular history (Fri, Aug 17, 2018)
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• Mary Beard’s life in Classics (Thu, Aug 16, 2018)
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• Historical fact and fiction (Wed, Aug 15, 2018)
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• Ian Kershaw on postwar Europe (Tue, Aug 14, 2018)
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• Inside the mind of Elizabeth I (Mon, Aug 13, 2018)
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• Britons under Nazi rule (Thu, Aug 09, 2018)
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• Islam’s struggle with modernity (Mon, Aug 06, 2018)
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• Britain’s foreign policy secrets (Thu, Aug 02, 2018)
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• The Tommies’ final acts (Mon, Jul 30, 2018)
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• Catholics in Elizabethan England (Thu, Jul 26, 2018)
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• Rethinking 20th-century Britain (Mon, Jul 23, 2018)
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• Nelson Mandela’s extraordinary life (Thu, Jul 19, 2018)
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• The murder of the Romanovs (Mon, Jul 16, 2018)
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• Britain’s refugee camps (Thu, Jul 12, 2018)
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• Spies through the ages (Mon, Jul 09, 2018)
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• Making the modern world (Thu, Jul 05, 2018)
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• Ireland’s past and present (Mon, Jul 02, 2018)
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• Sherwood Forest through the ages (Thu, Jun 28, 2018)
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• The national debt dilemma (Mon, Jun 25, 2018)
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• Restoring women’s voices (Thu, Jun 21, 2018)
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• The history of manners (Mon, Jun 18, 2018)
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• World War One at home (Thu, Jun 14, 2018)
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• Grenfell Tower: from hope to tragedy (Mon, Jun 11, 2018)
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• Britain’s Catholic emancipation (Thu, Jun 07, 2018)
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• The mystery of Donald Maclean (Mon, Jun 04, 2018)
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• America’s changing dream (Thu, May 31, 2018)
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• Challenging British heroes (Tue, May 29, 2018)
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• Jane Seymour: Henry VIII’s favourite queen (Thu, May 24, 2018)
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• The remarkable history of the Netherlands (Mon, May 21, 2018)
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• Beevor on Arnhem (Thu, May 17, 2018)
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• The Women Behind Lord Byron (Mon, May 14, 2018)
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• The Entebbe raid (Thu, May 10, 2018)
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• The failings of the French Revolution (Mon, May 07, 2018)
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• 500 years of medicine (Thu, May 03, 2018)
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• Were the suffragettes terrorists? (Mon, Apr 30, 2018)
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• 1983: the Cold War almost goes nuclear (Thu, Apr 26, 2018)
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• Economists who changed the world (Mon, Apr 23, 2018)
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• Medieval bodies (Thu, Apr 19, 2018)
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• Africa’s contested past (Mon, Apr 16, 2018)
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• Shakespeare’s greatest actor (Thu, Apr 12, 2018)
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• The Vietnam War on film (Mon, Apr 09, 2018)
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• Medieval mystics (Thu, Apr 05, 2018)
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• A quick history of France (Tue, Apr 03, 2018)
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• Creating the SAS (Thu, Mar 29, 2018)
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• Opposing the Nazis (Mon, Mar 26, 2018)
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• The history of today (Thu, Mar 22, 2018)
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• The postwar world (Mon, Mar 19, 2018)
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• The Marshall Plan and the Cold War (Thu, Mar 15, 2018)
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• Ruth Ellis: the last woman to be hanged in Britain (Mon, Mar 12, 2018)
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• Vikings on screen (Thu, Mar 08, 2018)
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• Music and revolution (Mon, Mar 05, 2018)
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• Schama on Civilisations (Thu, Mar 01, 2018)
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• Science and suffrage (Mon, Feb 26, 2018)
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• The Terracotta Warriors (Thu, Feb 22, 2018)
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• BBC Arabic at 80 (Mon, Feb 19, 2018)
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• The World Cup story (Thu, Feb 15, 2018)
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• The Spanish Flu pandemic (Mon, Feb 12, 2018)
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• The Pankhursts (Thu, Feb 08, 2018)
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• The Suffragettes (Mon, Feb 05, 2018)
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• Elizabeth’s love rival (Thu, Feb 01, 2018)
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• Britain’s secret wartime prison (Mon, Jan 29, 2018)
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• Living with the oceans (Thu, Jan 25, 2018)
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• The story of the Bayeux Tapestry (Mon, Jan 22, 2018)
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• East End Crime (Thu, Jan 18, 2018)
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• Prisoners of war (Mon, Jan 15, 2018)
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• Mary Shelley and her monster (Thu, Jan 11, 2018)
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• The tragedy of Lady Jane Grey (Mon, Jan 08, 2018)(:20:10 -0000, )
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• Hamilton: the man behind the musical (Thu, Jan 04, 2018)
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• Churchill’s darkest hour (Tue, Jan 02, 2018)
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• 1917: The world at war (Thu, Dec 28, 2017)
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• Christmas history quiz (Mon, Dec 25, 2017)
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• Alfred the Great and science at Christmas (Thu, Dec 21, 2017)
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• The origins of civilisation (Mon, Dec 18, 2017)
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• Cornwell on Shakespeare (Thu, Dec 14, 2017)
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• Eating with Dickens (Mon, Dec 11, 2017)
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• Animals that changed us (Thu, Dec 07, 2017)
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• Britain on the edge (Mon, Dec 04, 2017)
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• Black Tudors (Thu, Nov 30, 2017)
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• Victorian medicine (Mon, Nov 27, 2017)
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• The history of sleep (Thu, Nov 23, 2017)
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• Charles II on the run (Mon, Nov 20, 2017)
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• Demons and shipwrecks (Thu, Nov 16, 2017)
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• Drinking history (Mon, Nov 13, 2017)
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• Britain’s Chinese army (Thu, Nov 09, 2017)
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• The Last Kamikazes (Mon, Nov 06, 2017)
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• How networks shape history (Thu, Nov 02, 2017)
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• The search for King Arthur (Mon, Oct 30, 2017)
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• The Medici (Thu, Oct 26, 2017)
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• The death of Stalin (Mon, Oct 23, 2017)
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• The Gunpowder Plot (Thu, Oct 19, 2017)
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• Living with the Gods (Mon, Oct 16, 2017)
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• Richard III reconsidered (Thu, Oct 12, 2017)
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• The Munich Conference (Mon, Oct 09, 2017)
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• The world of the Scythians (Thu, Oct 05, 2017)
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• Starkey on the Reformation (Mon, Oct 02, 2017)
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• Tales of war (Thu, Sep 28, 2017)
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• Victoria the matchmaker (Mon, Sep 25, 2017)
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• Christianity and the classical world (Thu, Sep 21, 2017)
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• The Ukrainian famine (Mon, Sep 18, 2017)
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• The Knights Templar (Thu, Sep 14, 2017)
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• William Marshal: the greatest knight (Mon, Sep 11, 2017)
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• The History Hot 100 (Thu, Sep 07, 2017)
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• Viking Britain (Mon, Sep 04, 2017)
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• A deadly royal favourite? (Thu, Aug 31, 2017)
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• Queen Victoria behind closed doors (Tue, Aug 29, 2017)
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• Friends or Enemies? Anglo-French relations (Thu, Aug 24, 2017)
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• Migrating to Britain (Mon, Aug 21, 2017)
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• The Jarrow March (Thu, Aug 17, 2017)
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• Witchcraft through the ages (Mon, Aug 14, 2017)
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• Icelandic murder mystery (Thu, Aug 10, 2017)
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• China in World War Two (Mon, Aug 07, 2017)
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• The Koh-i-Noor (Thu, Aug 03, 2017)
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• Living through Partition (Mon, Jul 31, 2017)
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• The lost objects of South Asia (Thu, Jul 27, 2017)
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• The brilliance of Henry James (Mon, Jul 24, 2017)
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• The English in America (Thu, Jul 20, 2017)
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• Germany’s World War Two (Tue, Jul 18, 20)(17 -0000 09:40:00, )
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• Voices of the Cold War (Thu, Jul 13, 2017)
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• A legendary spymaster (Mon, Jul 10, 2017)
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• Hans Sloane and the British Museum (Thu, Jul 06, 2017)
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• Female flyers in Nazi Germany (Mon, Jul 03, 2017)
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• Children at war (Thu, Jun 29, 2017)
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• The Second World War (Thu, Jun 22, 2017)
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• Jane Austen and Tudor London (Thu, Jun 15, 2017)
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• Medieval manuscripts and the First World War (Thu, Jun 08, 2017)
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• The Six-Day War and the Great Fire of London (Thu, Jun 01, 2017)
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• Civil wars and Restoration England (Thu, May 25, 2017)
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• England’s bloody Reformation (Thu, May 18, 2017)
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• Queen Victoria’s dinners and Henry VIII’s niece (Thu, May 11, 2017)
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• Martin Luther and the making of the USA (Thu, May 04, 2017)
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• The Islamic enlightenment (Thu, Apr 27, 2017)
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• Historical fiction and a US murder scandal (Thu, Apr 20, 2017)
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• The ‘Father of History’ and India in the British empire (Thu, Apr 13, 2017)
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• America in World War One and a naval tragedy (Thu, Apr 06, 2017)
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• Women in popular history (Thu, Mar 30, 2017)
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• Blitzkrieg (Thu, Mar 23, 2017)
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• Utopias in history and an environmental disaster (Thu, Mar 16, 2017)
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• Postwar occupations and Raleigh bicycles (Thu, Mar 09, 2017)
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• The Reformation (Thu, Mar 02, 2017)
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• A revolutionary engineer and Victoria’s Indian confidant (Thu, Feb 23, 2017)
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• The roots of modern rage (Thu, Feb 16, 2017)
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• The impact of war and a zoological institution (Thu, Feb 09, 2017)
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• The Russian revolution and myths of ancient Egypt (Thu, Feb 02, 2017)
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• The history of puzzles and the extraordinary life of Lady Anne Barnard (Thu, Jan 26, 2017)
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• The Battle of Britain (Thu, Jan 19, 2017)
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• A history of Istanbul (Thu, Jan 12, 2017)
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• The big questions of the Holocaust (Thu, Jan 05, 2017)
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• The birth of Eurasia (Thu, Dec 29, 2016)
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• 2016 Christmas history quiz (Thu, Dec 22, 2016)
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• Corner shops and Russian ballet (Thu, Dec 15, 2016)
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• Historians in parliament (Thu, Dec 08, 2016)
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• The attack on Pearl Harbor and physics through the ages (Thu, Dec 01, 2016)
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• Arts and Crafts and unusual inventors (Thu, Nov 24, 2016)
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• Soviet science and feeding Britain at war (Thu, Nov 17, 2016)
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• The wartime SAS and Hitler’s drug addiction (Thu, Nov 10, 2016)
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• Black British history and Charles I’s children (Thu, Nov 03, 2016)
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• Reporting from war zones (Thu, Oct 27, 2016)
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• The Aberfan disaster and women who made history (Mon, Oct 24, 2016)
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• The Norman Conquest (Thu, Oct 13, 2016)
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• Lenin and the Russian revolutions (Thu, Oct 06, 2016)
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• Historical television and the battle of Flodden (Thu, Sep 29, 2016)
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• Women in politics and Robinson Crusoe (Thu, Sep 22, 2016)
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• Cold War summits (Thu, Sep 15, 2016)
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• Poldark and historical TV drama (Thu, Sep 08, 2016)
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• The end of the First World War and the Duke of Wellington (Thu, Sep 01, 2016)
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• The Great Fire of London (Thu, Aug 25, 2016)
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• The Suez crisis and the north of England (Thu, Aug 18, 2016)
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• The 1920s: Roaring or tame? (Thu, Aug 11, 2016)
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• The Cold War and the history of philosophy (Thu, Aug 04, 2016)
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• Jacobites and the Ancient World (Fri, Jul 29, 2016)
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• Two King Edwards (Thu, Jul 21, 2016)
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• Paris’s women at war and the Housewives’ League (Thu, Jul 14, 2016)
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• Britain’s Second World War and the Country House (Thu, Jul 07, 2016)
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• Battle of the Somme special (Thu, Jun 30, 2016)
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• The Radium Girls and the cotton revolution (Thu, Jun 23, 2016)
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• Wolfson History Prizes: Nazi camps and St Augustine (Thu, Jun 16, 2016)
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• Operation Barbarossa (Thu, Jun 09, 2016)
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• Tudor monarchs and a Medieval civil war (Thu, Jun 02, 2016)
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• Writing history in the 21st century (Thu, May 26, 2016)
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• The battle of Jutland and 1950s domestic dangers (Thu, May 19, 2016)
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• A Victorian murder and a ship that made history (Thu, May 12, 2016)
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• Sykes-Picot and a 17th-century polymath (Thu, May 05, 2016)
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• The history of consumerism and Chinese philosophy (Thu, Apr 28, 2016)
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• Shakespeare’s world and cricket in South Africa (Thu, Apr 21, 2016)
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• Student life and working class culture (Thu, Apr 14, 2016)
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• Charles II and an Atlantic experiment (Thu, Apr 07, 2016)
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• The Dissolution and a forgotten colony (Thu, Mar 31, 2016)
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• Democracy and an age of genius (Thu, Mar 24, 2016)
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• The Easter Rising and a Victorian heyday (Thu, Mar 17, 2016)
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• Muslims and Jews in the 16th century (Thu, Mar 10, 2016)
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• The Holy Roman Empire and Capability Brown (Thu, Mar 03, 2016)
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• Middle East history special (Thu, Feb 25, 2016)
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• Verdun and the Renaissance (Thu, Feb 18, 2016)
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• Benjamin Franklin in London (Thu, Feb 11, 2016)
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• The battle over Henry VIII’s will (Thu, Feb 04, 2016)
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• The Romanovs and King Arthur (Thu, Jan 28, 2016)
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• A global view of history (Thu, Jan 21, 2016)
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• Postwar Germany and medieval CSI (Thu, Jan 14, 2016)
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• The amazing history of Egypt (Thu, Jan 07, 2016)
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• Victorian bakers and the Leningrad symphony (Thu, Dec 31, 2015)
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• 2015 Christmas history quiz (Thu, Dec 24, 2015)
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• Britain’s railways and the Titanic (Thu, Dec 17, 2015)
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• A history of red hair and amazing animals (Thu, Dec 10, 2015)
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• The Battle of the Atlantic and the history of Spain (Thu, Dec 03, 2015)
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• Shakespeare in 1606 and Olympic swimmers (Thu, Nov 26, 2015)
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• The Peasants’ Revolt and a Cold War spy (Thu, Nov 19, 2015)
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• Ancient Rome special (Thu, Nov 12, 2015)
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• The end of the Cold War and British culture (Thu, Nov 05, 2015)
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• World War Two spies and an extraordinary naturalist (Thu, Oct 29, 2015)
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• The Last Kingdom and Agincourt (Wed, Oct 28, 2015)
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• A year in medieval England (Thu, Oct 15, 2015)
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• The Brontës and a revolutionary artist (Thu, Oct 08, 2015)
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• New views on the Holocaust and 1980s Britain (Thu, Oct 01, 2015)
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• Celts special (Thu, Sep 24, 2015)
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• The Somme and the Jacobites (Fri, Sep 18, 2015)
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• Roman emperors and women through the ages (Thu, Sep 10, 2015)
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• North Sea oil and the Blitz (Thu, Sep 03, 2015)
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• Killing Mussolini (Thu, Aug 27, 2015)
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• Ancient cities and the Norman conquest (Thu, Aug 20, 2015)
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• Crusade logistics and the battle over the slave trade (Thu, Aug 13, 2015)
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• The Pacific War and First World War black soldiers (Thu, Aug 06, 2015)
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• Ancient thinkers and the history of madness (Thu, Jul 30, 2015)
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• Witch trials and feuding queens (Thu, Jul 23, 2015)
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• Anglo-Saxon saints and British slave-owners (Thu, Jul 16, 2015)
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• Regency scandal and the history of canals (Thu, Jul 09, 2015)
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• India at war and mining accidents (Thu, Jul 02, 2015)
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• Terror in Elizabethan England (Thu, Jun 25, 2015)
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• Waterloo 200 special (Thu, Jun 18, 2015)
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• The real King John and the BBC in World War Two (Thu, Jun 11, 2015)
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• Queen Victoria at home and a new Civil War museum (Thu, Jun 04, 2015)
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• The Battle of the Bulge and children of the Holocaust (Thu, May 28, 2015)
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• The history of India and a terrible explosion (Thu, May 21, 2015)
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• Wolfson History Prize 2015 special (Thu, May 14, 2015)
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• VE Day special (Thu, May 07, 2015)
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• Magna Carta and the Holocaust (Thu, Apr 30, 2015)
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• Medieval universities and an unlikely friendship (Thu, Apr 23, 2015)
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• Gallipoli and famine (Thu, Apr 16, 2015)
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• Saladin and suffragettes (Thu, Apr 09, 2015)
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• Science and St Peter (Thu, Apr 02, 2015)
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• The history of immigration (Thu, Mar 26, 2015)
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• Richard III reburial special (Thu, Mar 19, 2015)
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• Food from the past and the history of illegitimacy (Thu, Mar 12, 2015)
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• Shakespeare and war in the Middle East (Thu, Mar 05, 2015)
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• The life of Keynes and a trip to Ancient Greece (Thu, Feb 26, 2015)
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• The Peasants’ Revolt (Thu, Feb 19, 2015)
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• Amazing inventions and London after dark (Thu, Feb 12, 2015)
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• Life in the workhouse and British biographies (Thu, Feb 05, 2015)
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• Elizabeth I and an unlikely suffragette (Thu, Jan 29, 2015)
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• Debating British monarchy (Thu, Jan 22, 2015)
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• Henry VIII and Henry the Young King (Thu, Jan 15, 2015)
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• Wolf Hall and medieval civil war (Thu, Jan 08, 2015)
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• Stalin’s early years and Mein Kampf (Thu, Jan 01, 2015)
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• Christmas podcast quiz (Wed, Dec 24, 2014)
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• Kamikaze pilots and Captain John Smith (Thu, Dec 18, 2014)
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• Student radicals and Crete in WWII (Thu, Dec 11, 2014)
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• The North Sea and Bronze Age remains (Thu, Dec 04, 2014)
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• Revolutions in Europe and forensics in history (Thu, Nov 27, 2014)
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• Science fiction and dancing in history (Thu, Nov 13, 2014)
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• The Berlin Wall and the return of Charles II (Thu, Nov 06, 2014)
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• The Gunpowder Plot and the First World War (Thu, Oct 30, 2014)
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• Germany through the centuries and Hitler’s cocaine habit (Thu, Oct 23, 2014)
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• Georgian gardens and historical fiction (Thu, Oct 16, 2014)
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• The battle of Agincourt and the Spanish communists (Thu, Oct 09, 2014)
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• The trials of Joan of Arc (Thu, Oct 02, 2014)
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• The history of humanity (Thu, Sep 25, 2014)
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• Hunting the regicides and the Chartist movement (Thu, Sep 18, 2014)
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• Fresh views on the Wars of the Roses (Thu, Sep 11, 2014)
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• Thomas Cromwell’s fall from grace (Thu, Sep 04, 2014)
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• George III and the art of anatomy (Thu, Aug 28, 2014)
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• The long history of the Crusades (Thu, Aug 21, 2014)
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• James Bond and Vichy France (Thu, Aug 14, 2014)
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• The global First World War (Thu, Aug 07, 2014)
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• The German view on the First World War (Thu, Jul 31, 2014)
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• Richard III and dirty Tudors (Thu, Jul 24, 2014)
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• The World War Two French resistance and British holidays (Thu, Jul 17, 2014)
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• Cold War smuggling and First World War veterans (Thu, Jul 10, 2014)
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• Delphi and the Spanish empire (Thu, Jul 03, 2014)
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• Finance and war (Thu, Jun 26, 2014)
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• English gardens and Latin American football (Thu, Jun 19, 2014)
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• The legacy of the First World War (Thu, Jun 12, 2014)
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• Wolfson History Prize special (Tue, Jun 03, 2014)
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• D-Day and the Wars of the Roses (Thu, May 29, 2014)
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• Roman slavery and the man who started the First World War (Thu, May 22, 2014)
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• Monte Cassino and revolutionary Russia (Thu, May 15, 2014)
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• Thomas Malthus and Wilkie Collins (Thu, May 08, 2014)
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• Victorian burials and the history of psychology (Thu, May 01, 2014)
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• The value of war and the rail revolution (Thu, Apr 24, 2014)
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• African history special (Thu, Apr 17, 2014)
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• Lawrence of Arabia and the Romanov sisters (Thu, Apr 10, 2014)
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• Britain in the 1970s (Thu, Apr 03, 2014)
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• Anglo-Saxon treasures, and did Britain invent freedom? (Thu, Mar 27, 2014)
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• Cold War spies and friendship through the ages (Thu, Mar 20, 2014)
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• Escaping the Blitz and recording the First World War (Thu, Mar 13, 2014)
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• Viking treasures and Hitler's 'perfect woman' (Thu, Mar 06, 2014)
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• Tasmanian aborigines and the historic importance of the River Nile (Thu, Feb 27, 2014)
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• Napoleon's formative years and great thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment (Thu, Feb 20, 2014)
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• The Babylonian Noah and Norse mythology (Thu, Feb 13, 2014)
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• Royal cousins at war and Brunel's brilliance (Thu, Feb 06, 2014)
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• Memories of Churchill and the history of the individual (Thu, Jan 30, 2014)
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• Paxman on World War One (Thu, Jan 23, 2014)
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• Britain and the Union (Fri, Jan 17, 2014)
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• Britain in 1914 and Jesus in history (Thu, Jan 09, 2014)
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• The aftermath of the Second World War (Thu, Jan 02, 2014)
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• The Black Death and Tudor adventurers (Fri, Dec 27, 2013)
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• Christmas quiz (Thu, Dec 19, 2013)
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• Nelson Mandela special (Thu, Dec 12, 2013)
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• The legacy of the First World War and Gandhi's early years (Thu, 05, )(Dec 17:30:00 2013, -0000)
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• Victorian vigour and a remarkable family (Thu, Nov 28, 2013)
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• JFK and a neglected Tudor (Thu, Nov 21, 2013)
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• Global history and the rise of the factories (Thu, Nov 14, 2013)
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• Cold War culture and the path to the First World War (Thu, Nov 07, 2013)
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• A new look at Nelson and a haunted castle (Thu, Oct 31, 2013)
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• Tudor portraits and Victorian footballers (Thu, Oct 24, 2013)
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• English Heritage's History Live festival at Kelmarsh Hall in Northamptonshire (Thu, Jul 25, 2013)
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• Elizabeth I's two bodies (Thu, Jun 13, 2013)
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• Horrible Histories special (Thu, May 30, 2013)
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• A history of the world and a second Norman Conquest (Thu, May 23, 2013)
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• Wolfson History Prize special (Thu, May 16, 2013)
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• Richard III special (Thu, Feb 07, 2013)
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• Britain's European rejection and an intimate view of archaeology (Thu, Jan 31, 2013)
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• History Extra Christmas quiz (Tue, Dec 25, 2012)
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• The Victorian cadaver trade, and lessons from the past masters (Thu, Dec 06, 2012)
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• History for future generations (Thu, Oct 04, 2012)
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• The battle for Madagascar and The Wars of the Roses (Thu, Sep 06, 2012)
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• The Victorian telegraph and Dan Snow on his new series (Fri, Aug 12, 2011)
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• The Duke of Wellington and Alfred the Great (Fri, Jun 24, 2011)
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• News for the BBC's Doomsday Project and the future of the National Archive (Wed, Jun 01, 2011)
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• History Extra podcast - May 2011 (Sun, May 01, 2011)
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