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The Birth of Physiology
12 May 2022The treatment of mental health has been rapidly growing and improving over the past few decades, but it actually goes back thousands of...
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Codebreaking at Bletchley Park
11 May 2022Bletchley Park, Britain's key decryption centre during WWI, is known for the success of breaking the Nazi Enigma codes - experts have suggested...
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Operation Pedestal with Sir Max Hastings
11 May 2022By the summer of 1942 Malta had been under siege by Axis forces for over a year and the situation on the island was bleak with food and fuel...
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Prozac
11 May 2022How — and why — did Prozac become the best-selling antidepressant of all time?
As it is Mental Health Awareness Week, we are...
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Mental Health in Victorian Britain
10 May 2022This week is Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK so we’ve got a special episode exploring the surprising way Victorians approached mental...
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The First English Autobiographer: Margery Kempe
10 May 2022Margery Kempe was an English Christian mystic, known for writing "The Book of Margery Kempe", a work considered by some to be the first...
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Bedlam
10 May 2022Bedlam: a scene of uproar and confusion, a noisy situation with no order or, originally, the slang name for a mental hospital in London… which...
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The 1650s: Britain's Decade Without a Crown
9 May 2022In 1649 Britain was engulfed by revolution. Charles I was executed for treason and within weeks the English monarchy had been abolished and the...
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How to Treat Depression in 17th Century England
9 May 2022To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, Not Just the Tudors casts a 21st century eye over "one of the most perplexing, elusive, attractive, and...
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Black Ops: A Life in the CIA
9 May 2022Enrique ‘Ric’ Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the...
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VE Day
8 May 2022For most of us, VE Day conjures up black and white images of carefree servicemen and women dancing and beaming in Trafalgar Square, of Churchill...
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LSD
8 May 2022How did LSD go from accidental discovery to the counter cultures go to drug?
On April 19th 1943 Albert Hoffman had the first ever LSD trip...
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