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Dark Truth About Victorian 'Freak Shows'
2 February 2026Julia Pastrana was a Mexican woman exploited as a sideshow attraction in life and grotesquely exhibited even after her death because of her...
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"Bloody Mary": Debunking the Myths
2 February 2026Was Mary Tudor truly “Bloody Mary”? Has England’s first reigning queen been misunderstood for centuries? Determined to restore Roman...
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Viking Age Music In Assassin's Creed Valhalla
2 February 2026The Assassin’s Creed games specialise in recreating the places and sounds of the past. But how can we know what music our ancestors listened to?...
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52:52
Whaling
2 February 2026The history of whaling is complicated. At its height in the 18th and 19th centuries, whaling was a global enterprise built on perilous voyages,...
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Adam and Eve
1 February 2026Adam and Eve: parents of humanity, or characters in a Near Eastern myth about wisdom, mortality, and the limits of being human?
Tristan...
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How Filthy Were the Victorians?
30 January 2026They say people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. The Victorians might have done well to live by that rule.
For all of the dirt that...
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The Parliament of Bats: Plantagenets at War
30 January 2026How could England be ruled when the king was just a baby? When Henry VI came to the throne at nine months old, the hunger for power among his...
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The Annexation of Hawaiʻi
29 January 2026How did Hawaiʻi - once an independent, internationally recognised kingdom - become America's 50th state? It's a tale of economic pressure,...
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Joan of Arc Explained
29 January 2026Teenage peasant, visionary commander, convicted heretic, national saint - Joan of Arc's life reads like a legend. Today, Dan digs past that legend...
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The First Popes
29 January 2026What do we know about the earliest Popes, and how did they shape the early Christian Church amidst persecution?
Tristan Hughes is joined by...
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Essex's Darkest Witch Hunt
29 January 2026This is the story of a 16th century cunning woman, a folk healer, who was found guilty of being a witch. Accusations spiralled until more than a...
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Ireland Under the Brutal Tudors
29 January 2026What impact did the Tudors have on Ireland, not just in the councils of kings and earls, but in the rhythms of ordinary life? What were the...
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