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The Tet Offensive: Turning Point of the Vietnam War?
4 January 2024January, 1968. Fighting in Vietnam has been ongoing since the 1950s. Ho Chi Minh and the leaders of the communist forces in Hanoi have concocted a...
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38:19
Tower of London: Most Infamous Prisoners
4 January 2024From William Wallace and King Henry VI, to Anne Boleyn and Sir Walter Raleigh, London's iconic Tower of London has held some of history's most...
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47:58
How to Survive in Ancient Rome
4 January 2024This episode contains a reference to animal cruelty
Would you be able to survive in ancient Rome?
Today, Tristan Hughes is joined by...
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51:51
Medieval Werewolves, Ghosts & Zombies
4 January 2024How did Medieval people fight against the Undead? What motivated their Ghosts? And why do stories of Werewolves persist until today?
Anthony...
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58:51
Princes in the Tower: The Tudor Pretenders?
4 January 2024The unsolved mystery of what happened to the Princes in the Tower - Edward V and Richard, Duke of York - is possibly English history’s greatest...
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51:02
3. Thomas Cochrane: From Disgrace to Freedom Fighter
3 January 20243/3. After a meteoric rise to fame, Cochrane finds himself in front of a court and stripped of his titles for fraud on the London Stock Exchange....
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39:06
1. Thomas Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander
3 January 2024Dan tells a story as dramatic, unlikely and exciting as any ever penned by an author about one of Britain's greatest sailors. Thomas Lord Cochrane...
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38:20
Napoleon's Penis & Other Iconic Body Parts From History
2 January 2024Perhaps without you realising it, history is marked by iconic body parts.
From Frida Khalo’s monobrow, to Queen Victoria's swollen armpit,...
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29:39
The Romanovs
2 January 2024The Romanov family were the first imperial dynasty to rule Russia, reigning from the early seventeenth century until the Russian Revolution of...
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36:52
The Tudors & the American West Coast
1 January 2024In the summer of 1579, Francis Drake had to land in a ‘fair and good bay’ on the western coast of the New World when his ship - The Golden...
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39:23
Tudors in Love
1 January 2024From Henry VIII declaring himself as the ‘loyal and most assured servant’ of Anne Boleyn to the poems lavished on Elizabeth I by her suitors,...
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How To Keep Fit in the Middle Ages
1 January 2024If your new year's resolutions include getting more exercise, drinking less, or eating well, you might be surprised to know that medieval people...
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