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The First Irish
10 January 2024Over 10,000 years ago, many believe Ireland was a place where hunter-gatherers roamed. A place where the earliest human communities exchanged...
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Gangsters of the Seas | Teaser
10 January 2024The new season of "Echoes of History" features Ubisoft's new game: "Skull and Bones". Inspired by this adventure where players write their own...
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The Plague of Athens
10 January 2024In 430 BC, in the midst of the Peloponnesian War, the powerful city-state of Athens was struck down by a disastrous plague. Athenians fell sick...
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Swearing: A F**king Long History
9 January 2024Have you ever wondered where the &%@! swear words come from? Well today, Kate is going Betwixt the Sheets to find out.
Linguist...
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President Zachary Taylor
8 January 2024Once the most popular man in America, hero of the Mexican-American war Zachary Taylor is our twelfth President and the subject of this...
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Ireland's Bloodiest Murders: Maamtrasna Murders
8 January 2024One summer night in 1882 the Maamtrasna Valley in the West of Ireland became forever notorious when three generations of the Seoige (Joyce) family...
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Harold Godwinson
8 January 2024All this month on Gone Medieval, Dr. Eleanor Janega and Matt Lewis uncover the stories of the protagonists and events that led up to the Battle of...
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2. Thomas Cochrane: The Battle of Basque Roads
8 January 20242/3. Thomas Cochrane and his crew of the HMS Imperieuse embark on their greatest and most audacious scheme yet; Cochrane leads a flotilla of...
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Elizabeth I's Spymaster, Walsingham
7 January 2024For anyone studying the politics of the 1570s-80s, it would be hard to avoid Elizabeth I’s ‘spymaster’ Sir Francis Walsingham, who seemingly...
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Jericho
6 January 2024The ancient city of Jericho is often thought to be the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in the world. Made famous by the biblical tale of...
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The Ancient Origins Of Sex
5 January 2024Going back hundreds of thousands of years, bumping uglies had to start somewhere.
What was the first sexual position? Was sex even for...
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The WW2 Witch Trial of Hellish Nell
4 January 2024What made a working class woman from Edinburgh become such a threat to British intelligence services during the Second World War, that they tried...
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