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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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45:03
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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51:48
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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52:35
Henry Wotton: Outlaw and Royal Spy
30 March 2026Assassination plots, Venetian stand‑offs and a diplomat in disguise: how did one maverick change the course of history?
Professor Suzannah...
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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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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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43:45
The Man Who Ate Everything
30 March 2026Listener warning: this episode contains a description of cruelty to animals
One of the strangest tales to emerge from Napoleonic France was...
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The Roman Centurion
29 March 2026What did it take to become a Roman centurion? To command, to punish and to lead from the very front of Rome’s armies?
In this episode of...
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The Truth about Charlie Chaplin
27 March 2026Charlie Chaplin had an extraordinary life: from the workhouses of Victorian London to the glamorous films sets of Hollywood's Golden Age.
He...
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A Complete History of Medieval Ireland
27 March 2026What happens when a kidnapped teenager returns to the land of his captors to change it forever? Dr Eleanor Janega and James Hawes romp through...
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Rise and Fall of the Shakers
26 March 2026The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, best known as the Shakers, emerged in the UK in the 18th Century. So how is it that...
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The Delian League: Ancient NATO?
26 March 2026What happens when a defensive alliance slowly turns into an empire? Tristan Hughes and Professor Polly Low explore the Delian League, the...
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