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Pirates: Barbary Corsairs & The Bombardment of Algiers
13 July 2025For centuries, the Barbary Corsairs captured ships and enslaved European Christians, turning the Mediterranean into a sea of fear and ransom....
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The Queen of Sheba
13 July 2025A figure of wealth, wisdom, and global fascination - how did the Queen of Sheba become one of history’s most enduring royal icons?
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Royal Sex: Marie Antoinette
11 July 2025Behind the wild accusations of extra-marital affairs and a lavish lifestyle, who was the real Marie Antoinette? Why did her marriage to King Louis...
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Canterbury Tales: Pilgrims' Professions
11 July 2025Do you know what a Squire did? Was a Merchant as fancy as he sounds?
Gone Medieval continues our week of pilgrimage as Matt Lewis is joined...
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Boudicca: Myths vs Reality
10 July 2025Boudicca, the warrior queen of the Iceni tribe, has become a symbol of resistance and British defiance. But what do we really know about her, and...
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Revolutionary War: What If the British Won?
10 July 2025Today we're heading back 250 years to the end of the Revolutionary War - but this time, we're asking what might have happened if the British had...
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The Truth About Frankenstein
10 July 2025Against a time of radical change, a gothic masterpiece was written by the teenage Mary Shelley.
Published in 1818, Frankenstein takes us...
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Mary Rose & the Battle of the Solent
10 July 2025Before the Spanish Armada threatened England in 1588, an even more dangerous invasion loomed, just across the Channel in France. The Battle of...
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Doggerland: The North Sea Atlantis?
10 July 2025Tristan Hughes is joined by Dr. Rachel Bynoe who has literally dived into the enigmatic world of Doggerland, a prehistoric landmass now submerged...
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Why Do Empires Fall?
8 July 2025For centuries, the Roman Empire commanded unparalleled control over the world around it. It expanded its borders through trade and conquest,...
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The Power of Medieval Gossip
8 July 2025People have always gossiped, but what did they gossip about in medieval times? How were women punished for gossiping? And where does the term...
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Chaucer's Wife of Bath: Medieval Feminist
8 July 2025This episode contains explicit language and themes
We're revelling in the Canterbury Tales this week; who else to kick things off with a...
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When Britain Sent Its Convicts to America
7 July 2025Britain shipped convicts to America from the days of Jamestown right up until 1775. More than 50,000 were sent. To explore this too seldom told...
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The Roma: Resistance & Survival
7 July 2025Professor Suzannah Lipscomb welcomes Dr. Madeline Potter to unravel the rich yet tumultuous history of the Roma people. From Tudor England, where...
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How Bloody Was 'Bloody Mary'?
7 July 2025Last week we heard about Mary's formative years. Today we get to her reign, the infamous burnings and ask ourselves if Bloody Mary was as bad as...
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Crusader Queens of Jerusalem
7 July 2025The very first Assassin's Creed video game takes us back to the Third Crusade, and the Kingdom of Jerusalem. As Saladin's Islamic armies tried to...
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Pirates: Piracy in the South China Seas
6 July 2025Zheng Yi Sao was a pirate leader so formidable that she made Blackbeard and Captain Morgan look like amateurs. From humble beginnings as a sex...
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Hannibal's March on Rome
6 July 2025It was perhaps Hannibal’s greatest gamble — after years of victories, not least his famed trek across the snow-capped Alps, could he strike at...
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St. Christopher & Summertime Saints
4 July 2025Ever worn a St. Christopher medallion and wondered about the man carrying the Christ child across a river? Or heard of St. Uncumber, the bearded...
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Royal Sex: Queen Victoria
4 July 2025With NINE children, it can probably be assumed that Queen Victoria was no stranger to the sheets, but what do we actually know about her love (and...
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The Rise & Fall of Sparta
3 July 2025Today, we trace the rise and fall of ancient Greece’s most formidable warrior society - Sparta. This society's militaristic culture and...
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