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How to Survive the Plague

9 September 2024

A feature of outbreaks of plague between the 14th and 18th centuries was the publication of books and pamphlets, known as ‘plague tracts’,...

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39:10

The Heist of the Century: The Missing Irish Crown Jewels

8 September 2024

In the shadowy halls of Dublin Castle, 1907, a daring heist shook the British Empire. Four days before King Edward VII's royal visit, the...

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50:00

Japanese in America: Railroads, Internment Camps & Little Tokyo

8 September 2024

When the US turned to Japan looking for workers in the late 19th Century, they probably never foresaw that one day soon they would imprison those...

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53:36

Massacre at Teutoburg Forest

8 September 2024

2000 years ago, in the year 9 AD, a Roman Army walked into a trap deep in wilds of Germania. Over 15,000 men were massacred at Teutoburg Forest,...

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44:42

Rewriting the First Crusade

6 September 2024

The Crusades still capture the imagination today, for all of their professed good intentions they were also bloody ideological...

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46:47

What The Ancient Greeks Got Wrong About The Female Body

6 September 2024

Why did the Ancient Greeks depict a womb as an octopus in their textbooks?

Their writings and (mis)understandings of the female body might...

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43:07

Machu Picchu: The Lost City

5 September 2024

Part 1/4. Dan takes the podcast to the Peruvian Andes as he follows in the footsteps of intrepid American explorer Hiram Bingham who revealed...

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39:02

President Woodrow Wilson: Progressive? Warmonger? Overrated?

5 September 2024

The 20th Century is up and running and the next President in our series, Woodrow Wilson, is in for a challenge. Reconstruction is over, Europe is...

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48:00

The Romans and India with William Dalrymple

5 September 2024

Ancient India was the single greatest trading partner of the Roman Empire. For centuries, Indian sailors navigated the Indian Ocean and Red Sea to...

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48:37

The Black Death: The Deadliest Plague

5 September 2024

It was beyond Biblical in its horror. Around half of all Europeans are estimated to have died in the Black Death. Death ravaged towns and...

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37:28

Elizabeth I Slept Here: Longleat House

5 September 2024

Queen Elizabeth I’s travels round England - known as ‘progresses’ - were never a quick day-trip or city break. They involved scores of...

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28:38

Hitler's V1 & V2 Rockets

3 September 2024

As the world closed in on the Third Reich in the final chapter of World War Two, a desperate Adolf Hitler turned to his so-called 'Revenge...

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