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Hitler's Early Years
7 November 20231/4 In this special 4-part series, we look back at the life of Adolf Hitler. With the help of Frank McDonough, a leading historian of the Third...
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Henry VII
6 November 2023Professor Suzannah Lipscomb kicks off four special episodes about the Tudor Dynasty with a look at its founding father King Henry VII. Seen as an...
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Who was Arib al’Mamuniyya?
6 November 2023Sold into slavery from a young age, this medieval rockstar Arib al’Mamuniyya went on to impress the Caliphs, and become a famed poet and...
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Origins of the Loch Ness Monster
6 November 2023What lurks beneath the dark waters of Loch Ness? The legendary monster? A piece of Celtic folklore? A warning of the Nazis' rise to power? A...
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JFK Special 1. | The Irish Woman Who Built The Dynasty
6 November 2023This November marks 60 years since President John F Kennedy was assassinated.
His name is associated with history defining events, but...
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How The Vikings Turned Christian?
6 November 2023Denmark's King Harald Bluetooth was among the first Scandinavian rulers to officially embrace Christianity in the early 10th century. Norway...
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Pocahontas: The True Story
6 November 2023Despite her being a household name, how much do we really know about Pocahontas? Where did she come from? How old was she? And what was her real...
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Vikings in America
5 November 2023What is a Viking? Did they really make it to the United States? And if so, how far did they get?
Don speaks to Martyn Whittock about the...
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Origins of Gaza
4 November 2023Throughout history, the area today known as Gaza has often been a contentious site. Its historical significance is a history that spans nearly 3...
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Hunting Pablo Escobar
3 November 2023By the early 1990s, the Colombian city of Medellín was at the centre of the world's largest drug empire. The fearsome Medellín Cartel, led by...
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Babylon
3 November 2023The urban cultures of ancient Mesopotamia formed the foundation for so much of our modern world. Nowhere exemplifies this better than the city of...
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The Salem Witch Trials
3 November 2023The Malleus Maleficarum, or the 'Hammer of Witches', was a 15th-century book that sparked mass hysteria about the existence of witches in Europe -...
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