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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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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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Elizabeth I: Make-Up & Beauty Tips
18 April 2024What do we know about what Elizabeth I actually looked like? How was her appearance altered through the use of cosmetics? Portraits suggest...
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The Goths
17 April 2024The Goths are renowned for many things, not least sacking Rome in 410 AD and helping to bring about the fall of the Western Roman Empire. They...
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The Georgian Husband with Fourteen Wives
17 April 2024Charles Hamilton allegedly had fourteen wives according to the newspapers, but the headline was that Charles used to be called Mary. In the 18th...
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Mao's China, The Berlin Wall and WWII Egypt: Witnessing History with Peter Snow
16 April 2024As a foreign correspondent for ITN in the 70s, Peter Snow remembers handing tins of film to strangers on airport runways, hoping they would take...
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The Battle of El-Alamein Explained
16 April 2024Fought in the second half of 1942, the Battles of El Alamein were a series of climactic confrontations in Egypt between British Imperial and...
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Rise of Wessex
16 April 2024In Gone Medieval’s special series exploring some of Anglo-Saxon Britain’s most influential kingdoms, we reach Wessex - the last kingdom left...
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Fetishwear: A Kinky History
16 April 2024What is the origin of the word fetish? How did the war play a part in shaping fetishwear? And what are some of the styles that are most...
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President Ulysses S. Grant: The Myth of the Butcher
15 April 2024How does a heroic general of the Civil War become one of the lowest rated Presidents (at least until recently)?
To discuss Grant's...
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