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HMS Terror: Cursed Arctic Expedition
16 October 2023Was ever a ship more aptly named? In 1845, HMS Terror (and its forgettably named sister ship HMS Erebus) set off from Victorian Britain. Their...
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Burke & Hare: Scotland’s Most Notorious Serial Killers
16 October 2023They’re the most famous grave-robbers in the world…except they never actually robbed any graves. Discover the true story of Burke and Hare’s...
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Goriest Murders in Ancient Rome
16 October 2023This episode is a bloody delight: from flesh-eating fish and humiliating deaths inside sacks, to a deadly re-enactment of the Icarus myth. For a...
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The Origins of Halloween
16 October 2023From its prehistoric origins until today, Halloween has always had the Shiver of Terror running through it. First as a pagan festival of...
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Shakespeare's son Hamnet with Maggie O'Farrell
16 October 2023When it comes to Shakespeare's biography and his inner life, there's a certain lack of evidence. But what if Shakespeare actually signposted us to...
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The Murders That Shocked Georgian London
16 October 2023Laundress-turned-murderess, Sarah Malcolm horrified Georgian London in 1733 when she was found guilty of killing three women she worked for while...
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: Debunking the Myths
16 October 2023On this special edition of Gone Medieval, Dr. Eleanor Janega pays a visit to our sister podcast Betwixt the Sheets to be the guest of its...
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Hades: King of the Underworld
15 October 2023This episode contains references to death and sexual assault.
Hades is King of the the dead and the Underworld in Ancient Greek...
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The Black Death: the Rise of Women, Witches & the Peasant’s Revolt
13 October 2023There’s not much good to come out of a plague, especially a bubonic plague in the 14th century. A pandemic which definitely didn't involve zoom...
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Welcome to After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal
13 October 2023Introducing After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal, the podcast that takes you to the shadiest corners of the past, unpicking history’s...
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President John Quincy Adams
12 October 2023John Quincy Adams didn't just share a name with his father. He also followed in his footsteps to take the Presidency, and then lose it after one...
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Ötzi the Iceman
12 October 2023Ötzi, otherwise known as the Iceman, is a renowned glacial mummy uncovered in 1991 in the Tyrolean Alps between Italy and Austria. Found by...
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