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The Persian Wars: Darius, Athens and the Battle of Marathon
20 February 2025490 BC. On the plains of Marathon, Athens faced down a mighty army of the Persian Empire - the superpower of the time It was an underdog clash...
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Giordano Bruno: Mystic, Heretic, Spy
20 February 2025Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake 425 years ago this month. His crime? Radical thinking which clashed with the ideas of the Roman Catholic...
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Glencoe Massacre: Haunted Highlands
20 February 2025(Part 2/2) On the 13 February 1692, Scottish government troops slaughtered between 30-40 members of Clan MacDonald in their home in Glencoe, in...
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What Was Life Like As A Samurai And Shinobi In Medieval Japan?
20 February 2025Chasing Shadows 1. Culture
Assassin's Creed Shadows gives players the chance to experience history as two icons of medieval Japan:...
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Josef Mengele
19 February 2025The Nazi doctor who committed heinous experiments on prisoners of Auschwitz was harboured by a network of Nazi supporters in Argentina after the...
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Supernatural Medieval Ireland
18 February 2025In early Medieval Ireland, supernatural beings moved in and out of our world, unseen. These were the residents of the Otherworld – the...
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The Dark History of BMI & Fatphobia
18 February 2025Dark ideas and stigma around different body sizes really took hold in the Enlightenment.
Very unenlightened, if you ask us.
This...
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Did Vikings Reach the US?
17 February 2025What is a Viking? Did they really make it to the United States? And if so, how far did they get?
Don speaks to Martyn Whittock about the...
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German Peasants' War
17 February 2025The German Peasants' War - which happened exactly 500 years ago - saw peasants across Germany, Switzerland and Austria rise up against oppressive...
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Peasants' Revolt: Murder in the Tower of London
17 February 2025(2/2) A boy King, a rebel army, and the first ever execution at Tower Hill. Maddy Pelling tells Anthony Delaney the days in the summer of 1381...
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Hattori Hanzo: The Demon Samurai
17 February 2025In the world of Assassin's Creed Shadows, the legendary Hattori Hanzo embodies both samurai and shinobi warriors, and earned himself the nickname...
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Why Isn't Canada the 51st State?
17 February 2025Dan explains how Canada has resisted many American attempts at annexation since the Revolution in 1775. From the tariff tensions of 1911 to...
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