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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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James Beckwourth, Conquering the American Frontier
3 November 2023James Beckwourth was a pioneering frontiersman and fur-trapper who conquered the American West by embedding himself in the Native American tribes...
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Tutankhamun: The Valley of the Kings - Signal Award Gold!
3 November 2023In celebration of recently winning a gold Signal Award, we are revisiting our series from last year on the 100th anniversary of the discovery of...
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Reburying the Dead of America's Revolutionary War
3 November 2023Dan attends the funeral of British and American soldiers, over 240 years after they died fighting one another at the Battle of Camden. He takes us...
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The Murder of Christopher Marlowe
3 November 2023This month on Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb investigates four of history’s most notorious murders and brutal crimes.
In...
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The Arab- Israeli War: Yom Kippur War 1973
3 November 2023Also known as the October War and the Ramadan War, this conflict was initiated by Egypt and Syria on October 6, 1973, as a surprise attack on...
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Mary, Queen of Scots
3 November 2023This is the story of the incredible rise and fall of Mary, Queen of Scots. She was queen of Scotland, she was queen of France, and she could have...
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Israel, Gaza and the West Bank: A History
3 November 2023In light of the complex and tragic situation unfolding in Gaza and Israel, this episode looks at the past 100 years of the history of the region...
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