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Medieval Italy
23 April 2024The huge peninsula of what we today call Italy saw waves of invasions and sweeping changes over the course of the Medieval period, with huge...
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Ancient Greek Sexual Health: Wandering Wombs & Headless Beetles
23 April 2024If there’s one thing you’ll find out from this episode, it’s that the Ancient Greeks were better at philosophy than...
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46:10
Pontius Pilate
22 April 2024Pontius Pilate was the Roman Prefect of Judea during the reign of Emperor Tiberius and is most famous for condemning Jesus of Nazareth to death by...
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Founding Father: Who Was John Hancock?
22 April 2024An iconic signature on the Declaration of Independence - that is what John Hancock is best known for. But how did he come to be the first...
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What is the Yeti?
22 April 2024Did you know legendary mountaineer Edmund Hillary found evidence of the Yeti? Or that David Attenborough is on board with the idea it exists?...
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How Spices Shaped the Modern World
22 April 2024In the 16th century, spices drove the world economy, creating riches on an unprecedented scale. Spanish and Portuguese explorers competed to find...
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The Battle of Crécy
21 April 2024The English won a decisive battlefield victory over the French in the first decade of the Hundred Years' War. At the Battle of Crécy, an...
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Apollo: God of the Sun
21 April 2024Apollo, the favourite son of Zeus and twin brother of Artemis, was a Greek God with many faces. Perhaps most famous as Phoebus, the God of the...
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Iran & Israel: From Allies to Enemies
20 April 2024On the 1st of April, 2024, a presumed Israeli airstrike destroyed the Iranian consulate in Damascus, killing 13 people. Amongst them was a...
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46:34
How the Plantagenets Built England
19 April 2024Six Plantagenet kings ruled between 1199 and 1399 - two centuries that witnessed civil war, deposition, the murder of kings and the ruthless...
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Sex in the Aztec Empire
19 April 2024The Aztec Empire might conjure up images of human sacrifice.
And whilst religious violence was part of their society, theirs was also a very...
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The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre: Slavery After the Civil War
18 April 2024During the spring of 1921, eleven bodies were found in in rural Georgia. These men were victims of horrific murders, and also of a more widespread...
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