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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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Theoderic the Great
12 October 2023In the year 493, the leader of a vast confederation of Gothic warriors personally cut down Odoacer, the man famous for deposing the last Roman...
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William the Silent, Father of the Netherlands
12 October 2023What encouraged a young man who had spent most of his formative years being raised by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, to bite the hand that feeds...
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Figures of Baghdad | Trailer
10 October 2023In Figures of Baghdad, we’ll get to know some of the great minds of the Abbasid Empire, all of whom are characters you can find in Assassin's...
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The WW2 Witch Trial of Hellish Nell
10 October 2023What made a working class woman from Edinburgh become such a threat to British intelligence services during the Second World War, that they tried...
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What if the South Won the Civil War?
9 October 2023What if the Civil War had ended differently, with the South seceding from the Union? Would slavery have continued? Would the southern states have...
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Origins of Medieval Universities
9 October 2023The University of Vienna is one of the oldest in the world. Founded by Rudolph IV Habsburg in 1365, it has been teaching students for centuries....
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