365 carefully selected historical events come together to produce a unique history of the world.
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REDEEM OFFERRecently Dan visited the once-gleaming Timbuktu with the International Committee of the Red Cross to learn more about its history and its vast collection of ...
Watch NowShort film following the story of Ada, a young woman from London who becomes a land girl in coastal Lincolnshire during the Second World War.
Watch NowOver the course of his 106 years, Doctor William Frankland has experienced more than most. He served with the Royal Medical Corps during World War Two, ...
Watch NowIn the first of this three-part series, we explore the "Great Awakening' in 5th century Greece, and examine how this process became the source of ...
Watch NowDan Snow joins a team of maritime archaeologists to explore First World War wrecks in Portsmouth Harbour. But will he make it across the treacherous ...
Watch NowProfessor Val Gibson, Dr Patricia Fara and Dr Sarah Williams - from the University of Cambridge - discuss the historical role of women in science ...
Watch NowIn this interview David Olusoga sits down with Dan Snow to talk about his new series 'Civilisations', the meaning of the word and why the ...
Watch NowFew cities in the world can rival the beauty of St Petersburg in Russia, 'the Venice in the North.' Discover the history of one ...
Watch Now24th March, 2019
Rapper and intellectual Akala talks to Dan about the way historical narratives are created, maintained and then broken down. He discusses slavery and abolitionism, the ...
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In 1943, Grimsby was hit by a new type of weapon: butterfly bombs, also know as cluster bombs. James Rogers tells Dan about the terrifying experience ...
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Dan explores the HMS Caroline, the last ship that survived the Battle of Jutland and remains afloat. The team from the museum of the HMS ...
Listen Now18th March, 2019
Suzannah Lipscomb's latest work unearths the lives of women in 16th and 17th century through a series of court sources that few have looked through. ...
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Dr Mike Martin famously critiqued the Ministry of Defence in 2014, who tried to prevent the publication of his book. The book was based on a ...
Listen Now15th March, 2019
The Battle of Kohima was a critical part of the war fought between Britain and Japan during World War II. It acted as a turning ...
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Suzie Grogan talks about the 'hidden illness' of World War One, now better known as shellshock or PTSD. Dan chats with her about the initial ...
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Suzie Boniface discusses those who were harmed by the nuclear tests conducted by the British atom bomb, as controversy surrounds the first British atomic test ...
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Every day, ten thousand Americans wrote to Obama. Jeanne Marie Laskas tells their story, and the profound impact that these letters had on the President....
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Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time. Craig Bennett, current CEO of Friends of the Earth in England, Wales and ...
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Lipika Pelham talks to Dan about the Dutch Jewish community in Amsterdam, how the Sephardim Jews ended up there and what they endured during the ...
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In this episode, Helen Carr talks to Lindsey Fitzharris about Joseph Lister and the development of germ theory.The new show on the History Hit ...
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