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Tutankhamun's Curse
11 July 2024Untimely deaths followed the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter. Coincidence or ancient curse? When the tomb of King Tutankhamun was...
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The First Japanese Visitor to Elizabethan England
11 July 2024In November 1588, a 21-year-old Japanese man called Christopher met Queen Elizabeth I. On the way, he had already become the first recorded...
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Britain's Secret Atomic Tests in Australia
10 July 2024During the 1950s, in the remote expanses of Australia's outback, the British government conducted a series of clandestine nuclear tests. These...
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Was Scott's Antarctic Expedition Sabotaged?
9 July 2024In the winter of 1911, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his party set out into the frozen heart of Antarctica. Battling blizzards and treacherous...
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Pope vs. Emperor: An 11th Century Crisis
9 July 2024When you think of drama in the medieval period the appointment of bishops would not naturally come to mind. But the Investiture Controversy is...
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Queer London & The Post-War Moral Panic
9 July 2024In the wake of the Second World War, a moral panic swept through Britain around a rise in homosexuality.
London was the heart of this scare...
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52:22
Communism in America
8 July 2024The history of the United States' relationship with communism is one littered with fear and persecution. So where did the American Communist Party...
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Zionism in Texas
8 July 2024What do you know about Galveston, Texas? Perhaps you've heard about the disastrous hurricane of 1900, perhaps not. This was also likely the case...
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Charles II's Lost Queen: Catherine de Braganza
8 July 2024Despite Catherine of Braganza's crucial place in British history, she has always been overshadowed by stories of Charles II’s many mistresses...
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How The Metropolitan Police Shaped London
8 July 2024Scotland Yard: the home of London's Metropolitan Police Force. In this episode, Matt Lewis and Dr Jonah Miller put a magnifying lens to the...
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Emperor Heraclius: Rome vs Persia
7 July 2024Emperor Heraclius took the Byzantine Empire from its lowest ebb to its greatest heights. After years of turmoil at the hands of invading Persian...
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Bell Witch of Tennessee: America's Greatest Ghost Story
7 July 2024It's America's greatest ghost story: the 1817-1821 haunting of a rural family by a mysterious entity—sometimes violent, sometimes mischievous,...
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