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Elizabethans in America
15 June 2026How did two Indigenous men help shape Elizabethan England's dreams of empire? What do these early encounters tell us about the contested...
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The Dark History of the Quakers
15 June 202617th century England was a world turned upside down.
A civil war resulted in King Charles I being executed, and from this moment a religious...
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The Cambrian Explosion: When Life Began?
14 June 2026538 million years ago, life on Earth changed forever. In an evolutionary burst known as the Cambrian Explosion, complex animals rapidly appeared...
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Supersluts of History: Royal Mistress Madam du Barry
12 June 2026Madam du Barry's life was remarkable: from rags, to riches, to... revolution. And she pi**ed off Marie Antoinette along the way, too.
How...
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The Queer Court of William Rufus
12 June 2026What really went on at the court of King William Rufus?
William the Conqueror's son and successor was fierce and ruthless. He taxed heavily,...
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Eisenhower's Countdown to D-Day
11 June 2026On June 6, 1944, a combined Allied force carried out the largest amphibious invasion in history. They were led by an American.
What was...
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Great Plague of London
11 June 2026What effect did the Great Plague have on Londoners, their society and the wider state?
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and Rebecca Rideal...
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The Sicilian Catacombs of the Living Dead
11 June 2026*Warning: this episode contains discussions of child death*
Deep beneath the sunny streets of Palermo Sicily, the Capuchin Catacombs are...
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The Pharisees
11 June 2026The Pharisees are one of the most familiar names in the ancient world, but are they also one of the most misunderstood?
Tristan Hughes is...
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Mary Beard on Ruling the Roman Empire
11 June 2026What did it take to rule an empire that was never meant to have an emperor?
In this second episode of our series on the Roman Empire, we're...
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Hildegard of Bingen - Prophetess, Composer, Mystic
9 June 2026How did a cloistered, twelfth century nun become a visionary, composer, healer, preacher, and adviser to popes and emperors?
Despite having...
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The Truth about Adam & Eve
9 June 2026What really went down in the Garden of Eden? Was there an apple? Was there a snake? Was the 'original sin' all that bad?
To answer these...
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