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Bloody Mary
30 April 2026In 1553, Mary Tudor became the first woman to sit on the English throne - a reign of just five years, that history has remembered almost...
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The Persian Gulf
30 April 2026Near the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most vital commercial chokepoints, lies an ancient trade route that powered civilisation 4,000...
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Anne of Cleves: New Discoveries
30 April 2026What if Henry VIII’s “discarded bride” actually showed real promise as queen?
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is joined by Dr James Taffe...
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How Scandalous Were Masquerade Balls?
28 April 2026Faces covered, identities unknown - masquerade balls sound like a place of anonymity and, therefore, SCANDAL.
But how true is this in the...
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Saving Byzantium
28 April 2026Did Constantinople’s fall in 1453 end the Byzantine Empire as neatly as we think?
Dr. Eleanor Janega and Dr. Laura Bolick unpack the...
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Geronimo's Rebellion and the Apache Wars
27 April 2026Geronimo's name is famous across the world: the Apache warrior who led a resistance movement against the United States out in the South West for...
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The Black Prince
27 April 2026He was one of medieval England’s most formidable warriors. Today we hear how Edward of Woodstock - the Black Prince - earned that reputation,...
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The Ottoman Conquest of Constantinople
27 April 2026Assassin's Creed Revelations transports us to Constantinople, only a couple of generations after its conquest by the Ottoman Empire. It is one of...
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Francisco de Cuéllar: Spanish Armada Captain
27 April 2026How did a condemned Spanish Armada captain survive shipwreck, betrayal, and war to leave behind one of the most extraordinary first-person...
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Dark Side of Prehistoric Britain
27 April 2026Across prehistoric Britain people raised vast stone circles, buried their dead in monumental tombs, and left offerings in rivers and bogs....
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The Last Days of Pompeii
26 April 2026In 79 AD, life in Pompeii unfolded beneath the shadow of a tremoring Mount Vesuvius. Streets bustled, businesses thrived, and merchants built...
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Offa, King of the Mercians
24 April 2026Was Offa a tyrant whose reputation was forever tainted by the killing of his prospective son-in-law? Or a visionary ruler whose achievements have...
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