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Sir Walter Raleigh's Search for El Dorado
10 September 2024Sir Walter Raleigh's life was a turbulent one, to say the least. The Elizabethan statesman and explorer climbed to the top rung of Queen...
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Pagan Ritual Nudity
10 September 2024Rituals are a big part of this funny human experience, aren't they?
Whether that's morning rituals like making your bed... or pagan rituals...
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Warrior Viking Women
10 September 2024One of the enduring mysteries of the Viking Age is the identity of two people buried in a spectacular blood drenched ship in southern Norway in...
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The Declaration of Independence: History’s Most Influential Document?
9 September 2024Assassin’s Creed III offers players a glimpse into the room where it happened - the signing of the Declaration of Independence. But was the...
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Myth of the Minotaur: Half Man Half Bull
9 September 2024The myth of the Minotaur has endured thousands of years for good reason... it's hard to forget! Today, Maddy Pelling tells Anthony Delaney the...
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How to Survive the Plague
9 September 2024A 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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The Heist of the Century: The Missing Irish Crown Jewels
8 September 2024In 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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Japanese in America: Railroads, Internment Camps & Little Tokyo
8 September 2024When 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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Massacre at Teutoburg Forest
8 September 20242000 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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Rewriting the First Crusade
6 September 2024The Crusades still capture the imagination today, for all of their professed good intentions they were also bloody ideological...
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What The Ancient Greeks Got Wrong About The Female Body
6 September 2024Why 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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Machu Picchu: The Lost City
5 September 2024Part 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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