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How Parliament Came to Westminster
5 July 2024Parliament is perhaps the single most significant institution in the United Kingdom. Like anything worthwhile, it's a medieval creation. But why...
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What is Populism? From the Farmers' Alliance to Trump
4 July 2024In the long unanswered question of whether the established elite truly support the concerns of ordinary people, a supposed hero arises:...
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Domina: Women Who Shaped Rome
4 July 2024The crisis of the Roman Republic is a period littered with iconic male power players. Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, Pompey, Brutus and the Gracchi...
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Ultimate Tudor Spy-Master: Robert Cecil
4 July 2024Robert Cecil, statesman and spymaster, stood at the heart of the Tudor and then Stuart state, a vital figure in managing the succession from...
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Real Life Crime in Victorian London
4 July 2024"You've got to pick a pocket or two" says Fagan to Oliver Twist about the foggy streets of Victorian London where poverty and oppression abounded....
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A Short History of Pirates
3 July 2024Swashbuckling, murder and robbery on the high seas! We're bringing back the fan-favourite episode on Dr Rebecca Simon's 'Pirate Queens: The Lives...
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The Inside Story of the Brexit Referendum
2 July 2024On the eve of the 2024 General Election, we're joined by Tim Shipman, chief political commentator at The Sunday Times, to hear about how things...
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Sex & Scandal in UK Politics
2 July 2024With the UK election a mere few days away (at time of release), what better time to look back at some of the biggest scandals in our political...
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The Rise of Thomas Becket
2 July 2024"Who will rid me of this troublesome priest?!"
These words supposedly uttered by a King over 800 years ago set in motion a chain of gruesome...
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How did Brexit Happen? A History
1 July 2024On the eve of the 2024 General Election, we're tackling one of the UK's most divisive topics; Brexit.
The 2016 referendum on EU membership...
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What Caused the American Revolution?
1 July 2024What took the US from the Boston Tea Party to Lexington and Concord? Where was the turning point for the creation of the republic?
Mary Beth...
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Six Wives: Kateryn Parr
1 July 2024Six wives - six lives that we think we know everything about. But beyond their mostly doomed marriages to Henry VIII and, in most cases, tragic...
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