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Barbie
31 July 2022Barbie. What is it about Barbie? Love her or loathe her this 11 ½ inch doll gets a big reaction.
Which is strange in a way because she’s...
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Hannibal vs Rome: The Road to Cannae
31 July 2022One of the greatest military commanders in history - it's no wonder Hannibal and Rome so frequently fought.
In the second episode of our...
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Eleanor of Aquitaine
30 July 2022From an age in which women’s lives were obscured and poorly recorded, one shines brightly from the darkness. Eleanor of Aquitaine - born...
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North Korea & the Kim Dynasty
29 July 2022With Kim Jong-un having issued a new threat of nuclear war just this week on the anniversary of the Korean War armistice in 1953, we take a look...
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Witches
29 July 2022What comes to your mind when you think of a witch? Broomsticks? Black cats? Warts?
Early modern witchcraft expert, John Callow, is Betwixt...
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The Long Death of Slavery
28 July 2022We celebrate abolition - in Haiti after the revolution, in the British Empire in 1833, and in the United States during the Civil War. Yet, over...
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The Tudors and Food
28 July 2022What food - and how much of it - did people eat in the Tudor period? Where did they get it? When did they eat it? What arrangements for cookery...
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Yorkshire's Roman Mystery: The Ryedale Hoard
28 July 2022In May 2020, four unique Roman artefacts were unearthed near Ampleforth, North Yorkshire by two amateur metal detectorists. A bronze bust that is...
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Anne of Cleves
27 July 2022Anne of Cleves was the ‘last woman standing’ of Henry VIII’s wives and the only one buried in Westminster Abbey. How did she manage it? Was...
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Contactless Payment
27 July 2022*tap* *tap* *tap*
That’s the sound of physical cash being consigned to the dustbin of history by us tapping cards/phones/watches...
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A Short History of the Ottoman Empire
26 July 2022The Ottoman Empire was gigantic; at one point it reached the walls of Vienna to the Persian Gulf and beyond. It was established at the end of the...
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The Norse Walrus Ivory Trade Crash
26 July 2022The first of Greenland’s Viking settlements were established in the tenth century. But by the fifteenth century, they had all but vanished,...
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