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Confederacy: Myth of the Lost Cause
24 March 2025How do you justify a war you lost, and that destroyed countless homes, businesses, towns and families? This was a question facing the southern...
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Dr Faustus: Pacts with the Devil
24 March 2025Professor Suzannah Lipscomb steps into the electrifying world of Elizabethan theatre to unravel the dark allure of Christopher Marlowe's Dr....
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Black Death: 5 Strangest Cures
24 March 2025It was a plague like no other. It provoked strange cures like no other. Anthony Delaney takes Maddy Pelling in search of the oddest cures...
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Ranjit Singh: India’s Sikh Warrior King
24 March 2025Of the many empires that have risen and fallen throughout history, Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: India draws our attention to one of the...
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THE LEADERS: Hirohito
24 March 2025Was Hirohito really as passive as history has painted him? Emperor Hirohito stood at the head of Japan’s war machine, yet after 1945, both the...
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The Fall of Athens
23 March 2025In 404 BC, Athens faced total defeat. Once the dominant power of the Greek world, their navy was shattered, their food supply cut off, and on the...
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Medieval Jerusalem
21 March 2025Imagine walking where those who shaped your deepest beliefs have walked...
Matt Lewis is joined by archeologist Professor Jodi Magness to...
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Real Wives of Dictators | Nadya Alliluyeva, Stalin's Wife
21 March 2025Nadezhda Alliluyeva was born into a revolutionary family, but was it always her fate to marry Joseph Stalin?
She was independent,...
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The Rise & Fall of The Moors in Spain
21 March 2025In 711 an Arab and Berber army crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and invaded the Iberian Peninsula. Seven years later, their conquests had birthed...
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What If JFK Wasn't Shot?
20 March 2025The biggest counterfactual that hangs on the assassination of JFK is this: Would JFK have launched a ground war in the jungles of Vietnam? Don...
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The Iliad
20 March 2025A story of war, honour, and destiny, The Iliad is one of the greatest epics in history. Written by Homer and featuring legendary figures like...
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Henry VIII & his Rabbis
20 March 2025Henry VIII's desire to divorce Catherine of Aragon changed England; it could be justified by a biblical law that prohibited a man from marrying...
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