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The Delian League: Ancient NATO?
26 March 2026What happens when a defensive alliance slowly turns into an empire? Tristan Hughes and Professor Polly Low explore the Delian League, the...
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The Rise and Fall of Pirate Captain Kidd
26 March 2026Was Captain William Kidd a ruthless pirate or a pawn in a royal gamble gone wrong? Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and Debbie Kilroy trace his...
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Did Fashion Kill Marie Antoinette?
24 March 2026Marie Antoinette went to her death as one of the most hated people in the world, but in recent years she has inspired millions with her style. How...
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1066 New Discovery: The Myth of Harold's March
24 March 2026What if one of the most famous stories in English history never happened? What if King Harold did not march his exhausted troops 200 miles before...
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The Texas Rangers | The Frontier
23 March 2026We've all heard of the Texas Rangers: an undoubted icon of the American West.
In this week’s instalment of our Frontier series, we’ll be...
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The Da Vinci of Medieval Baghdad: Who Were The Sons Of Moses?
23 March 2026Assassin’s Creed Mirage sheds a rare light on Banu Musa - the Sons of Moses. These genius brothers play a small but crucial role in the game,...
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Dark Side of the Celts: Wicker Men and trophy heads
23 March 2026The Ancient Celts: feared in battle, guided by Druids, and bound together by ritual.
Long before Rome pushed north, Celtic peoples ruled...
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Plantagenet vs. Tudor: Who was the Rightful King?
23 March 2026Who had a stronger claim to the English throne than Henry VII? When Henry Tudor took the crown on the battlefield at Bosworth, his hereditary...
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The Commanders: Yamamoto
23 March 2026Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was the mastermind of the “sneak attack” on Pearl Harbour that dragged the United States into the Second World War....
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Leonidas: King of Sparta, Hero of Thermopylae
22 March 2026In 480 BC, at the narrow pass of Thermopylae, a vastly outnumbered Greek force prepares to face the advancing army of the Persian king Xerxes. At...
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Viking Scotland: The Siege of Dumbarton
20 March 2026What happens when Vikings stop raiding and start laying siege to a mighty rock fortress on the Clyde?
Matt Lewis is joined by Todd Ferguson...
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Hollywood's Shocking First Sex Symbols
20 March 2026Nearly 100 years ago, films in Hollywood were so much sexier and shocking than you might think they were.
One of the most shocking things...
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The Battle of Fredericksburg
19 March 2026This is the largest battle, by number of combatants, of the entire Civil War. But why? What was the federal objective at Fredericksburg? And how...
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The Rise of Putin and the 1999 Apartment Bombs
19 March 2026In September 1999, just weeks after 46-year-old Vladimir Putin became Russia’s prime minister, a series of apartment bombings ripped through...
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Tudor True Crime: The First Female Serial Killer?
19 March 2026Was there really a 17th century Italian woman who helped hundreds of wives murder their husbands, or is her story a myth born of fear and...
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Were the Princes in the Tower murdered?
19 March 2026It's one of history's greatest mysteries - 'what happened to the Princes in the Tower?' In 1483, young Edward V and his brother Richard were...
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What if the Ides of March Failed?
19 March 2026What if Julius Caesar had survived the Ides of March? This episode explores his last known plans — vast eastern campaigns, sweeping...
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Tiberius and his Island of Depravity
17 March 2026The Roman Emperor Tiberius has a harrowing reputation based on stories surrounding his latter years on the island of Capri. Stories of debauchery...
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Murder on the California Trail | The Frontier
16 March 2026The words 'Donner Party' have become synonymous with disaster in the American imagination. In this week’s instalment of our Frontier miniseries,...
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The Commanders: Eisenhower
16 March 2026As Supreme Commander, Eisenhower spearheaded the successful Allied invasions of North Africa, Italy and Western Europe. He's consequently one of...
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Samurai Armor Explained
16 March 2026In the 16th century world of Assassin’s Creed Shadows, we meet the samurai as they had to be: soldiers in a world on fire. But today, we’re...
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