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What Are the Late Medieval Ages?
3 April 2026Matt Lewis and Dr. Eleanor Janega dive into the chaos of the late Middle Ages; from the Great Famine and the Little Ice Age to plague, peasant...
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Inside the Brothels of New Orleans
3 April 2026Storyville was the red-light district in New Orleans, created in 1897.
What was it like in this neighbourhood, and inside the brothels...
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What Is The Kennedy Curse?
2 April 2026Their name is synonymous with power, influence ... and tragedy. And with so much of the latter, many have taken to speculating - are the Kennedy...
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When the Spanish Armada Reached Ireland
2 April 2026What happens when a fleeing armada meets an unforgiving coast? Shipwreck, slaughter and survival collide as Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and...
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The Real Outlander
2 April 2026The book and TV series "Outlander" has introduced millions of fans to Scottish history and the story of the Jacobites.
One of those fans is...
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Britain's First Dog
2 April 2026Fifteen thousand years ago, as the Ice Age loosened its grip on Northern Europe, humans returned to the previously inhospitable British Isles. But...
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How and Why the Crusades Started
2 April 2026This is your guide to almost two centuries of holy war - from start to finish. We untangle faith, politics and myth, and reveal how the Crusades...
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The Victorian Sex Trafficking Panic
31 March 2026Was there really a boom in sex trafficking at the end of the 19th century? What was 'white slavery'? And how often did the traffickers get...
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The Women Who Ruled Medieval Burgundy, and Europe
31 March 2026What if the most powerful warlords in medieval Europe were women?
From wine country to empire, Burgundy’s Duchesses brokered marriages,...
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The Trail of Tears | The Frontier
30 March 2026The Trail of Tears is one of the darkest chapters in American history: the forced removal of thousands of Native Americans from their ancestral...
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Saladin: The Third Crusade's Greatest General?
30 March 2026The original Assassin’s Creed game focuses on the Assassins' efforts to bring down the Templars during the Third Crusade from 1189-1192. He...
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The Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov
30 March 2026Marshal Georgy Zhukov was undoubtedly one of the Second World War's most formidable figures. Rising from humble peasant origins, Zhukov became the...
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