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The Battle of Okinawa
30 April 2024Please note, this episode contains discussion of suicide.
On 1 April 1945, as the Second World War in Europe was reaching its end, one of...
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44:59
Drunk Victorians: Moral Panic & Meat Wine
30 April 2024Glass of meat wine, anyone? That's right, the Victorians loved a glass of meaty wine.
They loved drinking so much that it became a moral...
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29:44
The Original Kamikaze: The Mongol Invasions of Japan
29 April 2024At the height of the Mongol Empire, Kublai Khan set his sights on the island of Japan. He launched two enormous invasions of that nation in 1274...
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44:21
Diving Tudor Shipwrecks
29 April 2024In the 16th and 17th centuries, sailing was a tool of warfare and empire, of conquest and discovery, of trade and travel. But vessels were...
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40:32
1811 Ratcliffe Highway Murders: Birth of True Crime
29 April 2024Horror struck the East End of London twice in December 1811. Two brutal sets of murders within a few days of each other. It became ground zero for...
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30:21
The Kamikaze Hunters
28 April 2024Please note, this episode contains discussion of suicide.
In 1945, after lengthy delays, the Royal Navy sent a powerful fleet into the...
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44:38
The Real Hamilton: Founding Father
28 April 2024Who really was Alexander Hamilton, and what do we actually know about his life?
A Founding Father, he fought in the Revolutionary War,...
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28:46
The Kamikaze Pilots
27 April 2024Please note, this episode contains discussion of suicide.
By October 1944, the Japanese were in real trouble. The Allies had made...
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42:58
The Beaker People
27 April 2024The Beaker People were a Bronze Age culture that revolutionised prehistoric Britain. They were responsible for introducing Bronze Age technology...
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41:26
The Witan: England's First Parliament?
26 April 2024Athelstan, grandson of Alfred the Great, was a great king who united what was once a collection of petty Anglo-Saxon kingdoms into one vast...
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36:46
Elvis Presley's Sex Life
26 April 2024Elvis Presley embraced sexuality from the start. Rock n roll was not tame music, and neither were his early performances.
So much so that he...
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34:16
President Rutherford B. Hayes: The First Great Depression
25 April 2024Emerging victorious from an electoral quagmire in 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes became the 19th President of the United States.
Professor Mark...
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