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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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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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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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The Syrian Civil War: How It Started
13 December 2024Dan is joined by the Defence Editor for The Economist, Shashank Joshi, to explore the origins of the brutal Syrian civil war that has left the...
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President Calvin Coolidge: The Roaring 20s' Quiet Leader
12 December 2024Sworn in after the death of President Harding by the light of a kerosene lamp, the 30th President of the United States led the country through 6...
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Marie Antoinette
12 December 2024In 1770, 14-year-old Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria arrived in France to marry Louis XVI. As Marie Antoinette, she became the ultimate diva...
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Predicting Death: Strange History of the Premonitions Bureau
12 December 2024Can we see beyond the veil, glimpse the future before it arrives? John Barker, a psychiatrist with a fascination for the unexplained, thought...
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