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Shakespeare's Players: Burbage and Kempe
13 June 2024Among the male players who performed thousands of new plays in the Elizabethan repertory, the most famous were Richard Burbage and Will Kempe,...
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Civil War Rivals: Robert E. Lee vs Ulysses Grant
12 June 2024100 years ago, in the spring of 1864, the Overland Campaign ignited a ferocious clash between two titans of US military history: Ulysses S. Grant,...
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Moses & The Exodus
12 June 2024The story of Moses and the Exodus is one of the oldest and most well known in history. It is full of instantly recognisable episodes like the...
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The Early Years of the British Empire
11 June 2024The British weren't always imperial global players with an empire of viceroys, redcoats and industrialised trade systems. The early years of the...
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The Betrayal of Mary Queen of Scots
11 June 2024Mary Queen of Scots had a life that resembled a Game of Thrones plot: she had awful taste in men, and a cousin in Queen Elizabeth I of England,...
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Edward the Confessor
11 June 2024One of the last kings of Anglo-Saxon England, Edward the Confessor regained the throne for the House of Wessex and is the only English monarch to...
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The Challenger Disaster
10 June 2024On January 28, 1986, the nation watched in horror as the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded just 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew...
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Samurai vs Shinobi: The Tensho Iga War
10 June 2024In the sixth episode delving into the history behind the latest Assassin’s Creed game, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Matt Lewis and Nathan...
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Enfield Poltergeist: 1970's Suburban Horror
10 June 2024The Enfield Poltergeist is Britain's most infamous haunting - set in the late 1970s on the outskirts of London, it continues to be told and...
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Six Wives: Jane Seymour
10 June 2024Six wives - six lives that we think we know everything about. But beyond their mostly doomed marriages to Henry VIII and, in most cases,...
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Lost on Mount Everest: The Mystery of Mallory and Irvine
9 June 2024Dan unravels the mystery surrounding George Mallory and Andrew Irvine's daring attempt to conquer Mount Everest in 1924 - a feat that could have...
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The War on Crime: The 1930s and the New Deal
9 June 2024How did the United States go from a country defined by its lawlessness in the 1920s and early 1930s, to one where many political standpoints rest...
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