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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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29:51
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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America's Serial Killer Family
26 July 2022When the Bender family disappeared from Labette county, Kansas, in 1873, they left a dozen bodies buried in the garden of their home.
But...
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The Biggest Prison Breakout of WW2
25 July 2022During World War II, in the town of Cowra in central New South Wales, thousands of Japanese prisoners of war were held in a POW camp. On the icy...
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Benjamin Franklin
25 July 2022As the only person to have signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776, Treaty of Alliance with France in 1778, Treaty of Paris in 1783, and...
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37:57
The Kosovo War
25 July 2022The war in Ukraine has left many of us aghast that open armed conflict could again erupt on the European continent... except the idea of a...
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40:56
The Cultural Impact of Colonisation
25 July 2022Ruffs, Pipes and Pearls
When Francis Drake returned home from the Spanish West Indies, he carried with him pearls to present as gifts to...
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Putin, Power and Personality
24 July 2022Vladimir Putin has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm. He invades his neighbours, most recently...
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Air Conditioning
24 July 2022No summer blockbuster. No Las Vegas and no skyscrapers in Dubai. No chocolate bars when the weather gets hot. Air conditioning is one of those...
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Hannibal vs Rome: Terror at Trasimene
24 July 2022Towards the beginning of the Second Punic War on 21 June 217 BC, a Carthaginian force under Hannibal launched a vicious ambush on a Roman army...
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Going to Church in Medieval England
23 July 2022Parish churches were at the heart of English social life in the Middle Ages. But how did they come into existence? Who staffed them? And how were...
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The Korean War: The Korean Experience
22 July 2022In July 1945 when Korea was divided by the 38th parallel into North and South, families were suddenly torn apart by a border that would change the...
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