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Roman Emperors with Mary Beard
28 September 2023When examining the role of the Emperor within the Roman Empire, it is often easier to focus on the individual rather than the role itself. With...
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Roman Emperors with Mary Beard
27 September 2023What did it take to become a Roman emperor? Pliny the Elder wrote that a ruler should be generous, victorious in battle and a father to his...
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Things vs. Humans: the spiteful behaviour of inanimate objects
27 September 2023If you can never connect to a printer, if furniture jumps out to stub your toe, if when you do the dishes the water jumps out the sink to soak you...
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Witches of St Osyth
26 September 2023In March 1582, a number of women from the small Essex village of St Osyth were hanged for the crime of witchcraft. Several others, including one...
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Polari: The Secret Language of Gay Men
26 September 2023It's a credit to the resilience of the gay community that when society tried to outlaw and silence them, they just created a language of their own...
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The Battle of Midway
25 September 2023On the 4th of June 1942, the US Navy took on the might of Japan's Imperial Navy in the battle of Midway. It was America's Trafalgar! At the end of...
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How Kateryn Parr Championed the Reformation
25 September 2023Henry VIII's sixth wife Kateryn Parr was a scholar and a writer in her own right. She was one of the first English women to have works published...
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Margaret of Anjou
25 September 2023Dr. Eleanor Janega continues Gone Medieval’s special series exploring Medieval Queens with a look at Margaret of Anjou, who rose to become a...
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The Bones of Anglo Saxon England
24 September 2023It's the 13th of December, 1642, and Parliamentarian soldiers have just stormed the city of Winchester. They burst into the city's grand cathedral...
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Hammam
24 September 2023With their elaborate domed ceilings and ornate mosaics, these public steam baths were adopted by Muslims from the Greco-Roman world. Stemming from...
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Battle of Little Bighorn
24 September 2023Not one of the US forces led by General George Custer into the attack on 25 June 1876 survived. But the story of 'Custer's Last Stand' as it was...
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The Dead Sea Scrolls: Mysteries of Qumran
24 September 2023Part 1/2. Potentially one of the most important archaeological discoveries ever, the Dead Sea Scrolls - also known as the Qumran Scrolls - are a...
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