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Inside the Foundling: London's First Orphanage (Part 2)
19 December 2024(2/2) We find out what life inside the Foundling Hospital was like as we complete the heartbreaking and heartwarming history of London's first...
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37:51
Georgian Christmas
18 December 2024Pantomimes, pleasure gardens, bare-knuckle boxing and political upheaval. Christmas in the 18th and early 19th centuries was a very different...
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How Did People Smell in Medieval Times?
17 December 2024Accessing stories from the past can be difficult, but how do we access smells from the past?
In today's episode, Kate is joined by...
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The Haunting Medieval World of M.R.James
17 December 2024The chilling ghost stories of M.R.James are as much a part of our Christmas television viewing as the King’s speech. But few realise that...
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Was the Civil War Won by Chance?
16 December 2024How did a couple's holiday save Kyoto from certain ruin? How did a landslide contribute to the Revolutionary War? Basically, how have chance...
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Pirates of the Pacific & the Spanish Empire
16 December 2024Pirates weren’t just a menace on the high seas - they were a direct threat to Spain’s empire-building ambitions in the Pacific. Professor...
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49:20
Lost Children of Georgian London (Part 1)
16 December 2024Today Anthony and Maddy look into the heartbreaking history of the Foundling Hospital, now London’s saddest museum.
Starting in the...
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The Mongol Invasions of Ming China
16 December 2024In Assassin's Creed Chronicles China, players foil a plot by Altan Khan to invade Ming China with his Mongol army. But who was Altan Khan, and how...
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40:25
The Cod Wars
16 December 2024In the long and lamentable history of human conflicts, the Cod Wars have to be among the most bizarre. And what was the catalyst for them? You...
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The Thracians
15 December 2024They were ancient masters of cavalry, creators of dazzling treasures, and the ancestors of the legendary Spartacus, but who exactly were the...
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Life and legends along the Medieval coastline
13 December 2024Matt Lewis is joined by archaeologist Ben Robinson from BBC's 'Villages by the Sea' to explore the deep historical ties along Britain's coastline,...
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Catherine Howard | Secret Lives of the Six Wives
13 December 2024Henry VIII called her his 'rose without a thorn', but the teenage Catherine Howard was to fall out of favour less than 18 months after becoming...
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