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The Texas Rangers | The Frontier
23 March 2026We've all heard of the Texas Rangers: an undoubted icon of the American West.
In this week’s instalment of our Frontier series, we’ll be...
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Plantagenet vs. Tudor: Who was the Rightful King?
23 March 2026Who had a stronger claim to the English throne than Henry VII? When Henry Tudor took the crown on the battlefield at Bosworth, his hereditary...
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The Da Vinci of Medieval Baghdad: Who Were The Sons Of Moses?
23 March 2026Assassin’s Creed Mirage sheds a rare light on Banu Musa - the Sons of Moses. These genius brothers play a small but crucial role in the game,...
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Dark Side of the Celts: Wicker Men and trophy heads
23 March 2026The Ancient Celts: feared in battle, guided by Druids, and bound together by ritual.
Long before Rome pushed north, Celtic peoples ruled...
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Japan's WWII Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
23 March 2026Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was the mastermind of the “sneak attack” on Pearl Harbour that dragged the United States into the Second World War....
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Leonidas: King of Sparta, Hero of Thermopylae
22 March 2026In 480 BC, at the narrow pass of Thermopylae, a vastly outnumbered Greek force prepares to face the advancing army of the Persian king Xerxes. At...
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Hollywood's Shocking First Sex Symbols
20 March 2026Nearly 100 years ago, films in Hollywood were so much sexier and shocking than you might think they were.
One of the most shocking things...
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Viking Scotland: The Siege of Dumbarton
20 March 2026What happens when Vikings stop raiding and start laying siege to a mighty rock fortress on the Clyde?
Matt Lewis is joined by Todd Ferguson...
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The Battle of Fredericksburg
19 March 2026This is the largest battle, by number of combatants, of the entire Civil War. But why? What was the federal objective at Fredericksburg? And how...
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What if the Ides of March Failed?
19 March 2026What if Julius Caesar had survived the Ides of March? This episode explores his last known plans — vast eastern campaigns, sweeping...
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Tudor True Crime: The First Female Serial Killer?
19 March 2026Was there really a 17th century Italian woman who helped hundreds of wives murder their husbands, or is her story a myth born of fear and...
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Were the Princes in the Tower murdered?
19 March 2026It's one of history's greatest mysteries - 'what happened to the Princes in the Tower?' In 1483, young Edward V and his brother Richard were...
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