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The Rise and Fall of Britain's Islands
19 February 2024How did Britain's islands become woven into our collective cultural psyche? Traversing Irish poetry, Renaissance drama and Restoration utopias,...
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Freedom Is The Greatest Treasure: Mathurin Desmarestz
19 February 2024The new season of "Echoes of History" features Ubisoft's new game: "Skull and Bones.
There are opportunistic pirates and those who have...
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Greek Myths: The Furies
19 February 2024The gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece have been written about for thousands of years. From their home atop Mount Olympus, they reigned over the...
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The Real Hannibal Lecter
18 February 2024At the tender age of 23, Thomas Harris, author of The Silence of the Lambs, was sent to interview a convicted murderer inside a Mexican prison....
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The Last Gay Men Executed in Britain
18 February 2024Why was Georgian Britain's penal code so bloodthirsty when it came to homosexuality? Was Britain unusually cruel in this regard? And does this...
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Ice Age Britain: Finding the First Homo sapiens
17 February 2024Roughly 40,000 years ago, Ice Age Britain was undergoing a transformation.
The first modern humans, Homo sapiens, were arriving and...
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41:08
Sex Work in the Middle Ages
16 February 2024Medieval England was not subtle.
Take sex work, for example. You knew exactly where to go, because the streets were labelled accordingly....
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President James Buchanan: The Worst President Ever?
15 February 2024From 1857 to 1861, James Buchanan held the office of President of the United States. It was a pivotal moment in the history of America, a bitterly...
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Sulla
15 February 2024Lucius Cornellius Sulla Felix is one of the most important Roman statesmen of antiquity. An inspiration to figures such as Julius Caesar, Sulla...
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Origins of the Condom
15 February 2024The first surviving mention of condoms dates from the mid-16th century, in the writings of an Italian anatomist better known for the discovery of...
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Murder in Henry VIII's England
15 February 2024In a world before police, what happened when someone was murdered? How were murderers caught? How did the wheels of justice turn?
We talk to...
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Medieval Mass Murdering Monk: Malmesbury Abbey
15 February 2024Malmesbury Abbey in Wiltshire was an institution of national significance from the late seventh century until the dissolution of the monasteries...
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