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Attila the Hun: Scourge of God
10 August 2023One of the most powerful, and feared, leaders of history - Attila the Hun's legacy has persevered over centuries. His consolidation of the Hunnic...
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Treasures of Lambeth Palace
10 August 2023Books belonging to Henry VIII, Richard III, Mary I and Edward VI are among the treasures in the historic library of the Archbishops of Canterbury,...
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Surviving Hitler and Stalin
9 August 2023Lord Daniel Finkelstein recounts stories from his parents' remarkable lives. His mother Mirjam Wiener survived the Nazi concentration camps, and...
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Coca Cola: A Backyard Invention
9 August 2023Was Coca Cola originally made with Cocaine? Did Coca Cola invent Santa? Who knows the Coca Cola recipe? Dallas is joined by Bart Elmore, an...
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Genghis Khan
8 August 2023Genghis Khan roughly translates to 'Universal Ruler', a fitting name for the most famous nomadic conqueror to have ever lived. He was born as...
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Eleanor of Castile
8 August 2023Eleanor of Castile married King Edward I of England as part of a political deal to affirm English sovereignty over Gascony. But the...
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History of Make-Up
8 August 2023Most of us present ourselves with some form of cosmetic, so it’s strange that historically there’s been so much judgement around the use of...
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Attila The Hun
7 August 2023Known to the Romans as the 'Scourge of God', Attila the Hun brought chaos to the world around him. He and his armies plundered, pillaged and...
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The Magna Carta in America
7 August 2023What does a document written in 1215 in England have to do with the United States? The Magna Carta has supposedly influenced foundational...
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Seymour, Dudley & Parr Families: Forgotten Tudor Women
7 August 2023Seymour, Dudley and Parr are all well-known Tudor names. But often, behind the more famous men in those families, there were women who had a...
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Tito: President of Yugoslavia
7 August 2023A Yugoslav revolutionary leader, who served in every major conflict of his lifetime - Josip Broz Tito ruled Yugoslavia for 35 years. Successfully...
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The Great Train Robbery
6 August 2023Did the "heist of the century" really happen the way the robbers say it did? In the summer of 1963, a gang of masked robbers executed a daring...
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