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Agrippina: Rome's Most Powerful Empress?
14 February 2023She was a woman of unparalleled power, descended from Julius Caesar and Augustus. But how did she get there, whilst most of the rest of her family...
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Sandby Borg Massacre: The Evidence
14 February 2023When archeologists uncovered a jewellery hoard buried beneath the Iron Age ring fort of Sandby Borg in 2010, their excitement was palpable. Yet...
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Nicholas Said: The Extraordinary Life of a Traveller, Soldier and Translator
14 February 2023This is the remarkable story of Nicholas Said - born into a wealthy Muslim family in the ancient Bornu Empire, his childhood was interrupted when,...
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A History of New York in 3 Hotels
13 February 2023The Waldorf-Astoria, the Plaza and the Algonquin all tell their own stories of New York City. Don talks to Anthony Melchiorri, host of Travel...
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Children in Tudor England
13 February 2023What was it like to grow up in Tudor England? How were children cared for, what did they play with, and which subjects were they taught?
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How The USA Supplied WW2
13 February 2023Before America officially entered the Second World War in December 1941, it offered the allies significant support in terms of military supplies...
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The Muppets Take Moscow!
13 February 2023Car bombings, assassinations and a military takeover: these are just some of the things American TV producer Natasha Lance Rogoff and her team...
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Snakes & Ladders: Tantric Mysticism, Cosmic Serpents and the Meaning of Life
12 February 2023It turns out that all those times you played Snakes and Ladders (Chutes and Ladders) as a child you were playing a game that once symbolised the...
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Cleopatra's Daughter
12 February 2023Cleopatra VII is one of the most famous individuals from the ancient world. The final Queen of Ancient Egypt, and a woman who used her position to...
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Origins of Treason in England
11 February 2023First defined in law in 1352, treason remains one of the most serious crimes a person can commit. And, remarkably, the core of the original...
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Food, Sin & Shame
10 February 2023Why might a medieval nun drink the pus of an ill patient? Where does ‘fishy Friday’ come from? And what does all of this have to do with...
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Nuclear Near Misses
10 February 2023What happens when a nuclear bomb is accidentally dropped onto foreign soil? Or when a nuke just goes missing? Rather worryingly, it happens more...
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