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Lucrezia Borgia
22 August 2022History has not been kind to Lucrezia Borgia. Daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, who became Pope Alexander VI, she has suffered from her family name (her...
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The Borgias: Sin in Renaissance Italy
22 August 2022In Renaissance Italy, the Borgia family were admired for their audacity and their ruthlessness - they even inspired Mario Puzo’s depiction of...
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100 Years of British Political Nightmares
21 August 2022Over Britain’s first century of mass democracy, from the Great Depression to the pandemic, politics has lurched from crisis to crisis. How does...
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Ancient Americas: The Olmec Heads
21 August 2022One of the the earliest Mesoamerican civilisations discovered so far - Olmec influences are visible throughout history. But who were they? And...
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28:33
Play-Doh
21 August 2022Find out what Play-Doh has to do with sooty walls. And how we have a nursery teacher called Kay Zufall and a TV presenter called Captain Kangaroo...
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26:57
A Fourteenth Century Thriller: The Lawless Land
20 August 2022England, 1351. In the aftermath of the Pestilence, Gerard Fox - a young knight robbed of his ancestral home, his family name tarnished - sets...
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44:56
Women & Football
19 August 2022Football, or soccer depending on where you are in the world, is quite unsuitable for women, wouldn’t you agree? No? Well the Football...
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WW2: The Dieppe Raid Disaster
19 August 202280 years ago today on 19 August 1942, a 6,000 strong combined Allied landing force took part in a raid on Dieppe, Northern...
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Warships
18 August 2022Today we are talking warships: from the revolutionary Tudor ships to modern aircraft carriers, and all the innovations along the way.
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Elizabeth I on Screen: The Historians’ Verdict
18 August 2022What do you get when you bring together five top historians in a room with bottles of Prosecco to debate Elizabeth I on screen? History with the...
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The Origins of Jerusalem
18 August 2022One of the oldest cities in history, and revered by religions across the world - what do we know about the origins of Jerusalem?
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What happened to the bones of the Waterloo battlefield?
17 August 2022In June 1815 the French army under the command of Napoleon was decisively beaten by an allied army led by Britain and Prussia at Waterloo in what...
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