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Welcome to American History Hit
23 August 2022Join Don Wildman twice a week for your hit of American history, as he explores the past to help us understand the United States of...
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Viking Sex
23 August 2022Who was Loki having sex with? What is a horse penis cult? And were the Vikings as brutal as we think they were?
Betwixt the Sheets today,...
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Viking Sex
23 August 2022In this episode of Gone Medieval, presenter Dr. Cat Jarman swaps seats and becomes the guest of Dr. Kate Lister’s brilliant podcast from History...
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The Voyage That Kickstarted Globalisation
22 August 2022In February 1882 the SS Dunedin departed New Zealand on a voyage that would revolutionise the way we eat and kickstart the globalisation of the...
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India-Pakistan: On the Brink of Nuclear War
22 August 2022In 1970, the deadliest storm in modern history ripped Pakistan in two, leading the world to the brink of nuclear war after American and Soviet...
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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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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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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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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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