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46 min

Dan Jones on The Knights Templar

Dan Snow meets the man with whom he is often confused - the heavily tattooed Dan Jones, medieval bestseller - on his brand new opus: 'The Knights Templar'. Shot at the Temple in Central London, this is the physical embodiment ...

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The Vikings in the Vicarage

Dan Snow joins archaeologist Professor Martin Biddle in the churchyard of St Wystan's Church in Repton, Derby, where he made an explosive discovery that will change the way we think about Viking Britain.

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27 min

Uncharted Heights – Leaving the Planet with Dallas Campbell

Dallas Campbell talks to Dan about the secret history of the Space Race, reveals the truth about the moon landings and examines mankind's insatiable, eternal drive to reach new worlds.

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48 min

The Mystery of the Headless Man

Simon 'the Fox' Fraser, the 11th Lord Lovat of the Highland, was the last man to be beheaded in England. But what happened to his body? Was he buried at the Tower of London? Or does his body in fact ...

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40 min

The Myth and Reality of Hitler’s Secret Police

Professor Frank McDonough is an internationally renowned expert on the Third Reich. He was born in Liverpool, studied history at Balliol College, Oxford and gained a PhD from Lancaster University. Here he discusses the subject of his book 'The Gestapo: ...

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38 min

The Holocaust – Laurence Rees

Laurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. In his new book, 'The Holocaust: A New History', he combines eyewitness testimony, a large amount of which has never been published before, with the latest academic ...

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27 min

History of Everyday Life – Greg Jenner

Greg Jenner is the historical consultant to Horrible Histories and is the author of 'A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Everyday Life'. Jenner explains it as a light-hearted history of everything since the stone age, because ...

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36 min

Jim Peters – Sutton Hoo Shoulder Clasp

This series is designed to give bite-sized insights into the world of Art History, bringing one image to life through discussion with experts. History is never far from view, so each image will be expanded to sit within the cultural ...

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany – Norman Ohler

The Nazis presented themselves as warriors against moral degeneracy. As Norman Ohler reveals, the entire Third Reich was permeated with drugs: cocaine, heroin, morphine and, most of all, methamphetamines, or crystal meth, used by everyone from factory workers to housewives, ...

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Mary Beard on Women and Power

Why has history persistently ignored or failed to recognise the role of women? In this Spotlight interview with Dan Snow, Mary Beard explores the many ways throughout history that women have been put down or silenced.

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