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Folk Christmas: Yule, Solstice & Ancient English Traditions
23 December 2024Folktales around the fire, gooding & mumping and the terrifying Hooden Horse are just some of England's winter folk traditions from history. In...
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Druids
22 December 2024Aligning with the winter solstice of 2024, Tristan Hughes and Professor Ronald Hutton delve into the ancient Druids of Britain and...
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Kateryn Parr | Secret Lives of the Six Wives
20 December 2024At the time, surely Kateryn Parr had her reservations about being Henry VIII's sixth wife?
Aside from being a tyrannical maniac who'd just...
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Lives of Medieval Nuns
20 December 2024The often forgotten world of medieval nuns holds many secrets about the lives of ordinary people of the age, their daily routines, education, and...
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How the Mongols Changed the World
20 December 2024After the death of Chinggis Khan, the founder and first Emperor of the Mongol Empire, the land became the largest contiguous empire in...
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Outlaws vs the FBI: J. Edgar Hoover's G-Men
19 December 2024What makes the ideal gangster hunter? In the 1930s, outlaws like John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Bonnie & Clyde were the scourge on the...
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The Birth of Money
19 December 2024Gold has shaped human history for several millennia. But how and when did it first turn into currency? And what can it tell us about the birth of...
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The Bible
19 December 2024How did the Bible transform from a guarded manuscript read in secret to a book accessible to millions?
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is joined...
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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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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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