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Charles Dickens' Christmas
25 December 2024Just as Scrooge wanders London's streets on a cold Christmas night, Dan Snow follows the ghosts of Charles Dickens' past to discover the city that...
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Sex Life & Scandal of Charles Dickens
24 December 2024Like it or not, there's no escaping Charles Dickens at this time of year.
But who was the man behind classics such as A Tale of Two Cities,...
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Christmas Movie Knight
24 December 2024It’s Christmas. The holly and ivy are adorning the fireplace, hopefully the shopping is (mostly) done and the King of Misrule is on his...
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How Old is America?
23 December 2024When fossils were discovered in the US during the 19th Century, it altered American understandings of science, religion, race and more. So what...
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Six Wives: Katherine of Aragon & Anne Boleyn
23 December 2024In the first of three special Christmas editions, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb offers another chance to hear the series from earlier this year in...
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Who was the "Elephant Man"? Joseph Merrick's True Story
23 December 2024The life of Joseph Merrick, the man they dared to call "The Elephant Man", will fill you with pain and anger. He was treated so cruelly by society...
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Vikings in Medieval Baghdad
23 December 2024In the ninth century, the Vikings earned a fearsome reputation along the coasts of western Europe. But they also travelled eastwards and reached...
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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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