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The Da Vinci of Medieval Baghdad: Who Were The Sons Of Moses?
23 March 2026Assassin’s Creed Mirage sheds a rare light on Banu Musa - the Sons of Moses. These genius brothers play a small but crucial role in the game,...
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Leonidas: King of Sparta, Hero of Thermopylae
22 March 2026In 480 BC, at the narrow pass of Thermopylae, a vastly outnumbered Greek force prepares to face the advancing army of the Persian king Xerxes. At...
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Viking Scotland: The Siege of Dumbarton
20 March 2026What happens when Vikings stop raiding and start laying siege to a mighty rock fortress on the Clyde?
Matt Lewis is joined by Todd Ferguson...
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Hollywood's Shocking First Sex Symbols
20 March 2026Nearly 100 years ago, films in Hollywood were so much sexier and shocking than you might think they were.
One of the most shocking things...
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The Battle of Fredericksburg
19 March 2026This is the largest battle, by number of combatants, of the entire Civil War. But why? What was the federal objective at Fredericksburg? And how...
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The Rise of Putin and the 1999 Apartment Bombs
19 March 2026In September 1999, just weeks after 46-year-old Vladimir Putin became Russia’s prime minister, a series of apartment bombings ripped through...
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What if the Ides of March Failed?
19 March 2026What if Julius Caesar had survived the Ides of March? This episode explores his last known plans — vast eastern campaigns, sweeping...
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Tudor True Crime: The First Female Serial Killer?
19 March 2026Was there really a 17th century Italian woman who helped hundreds of wives murder their husbands, or is her story a myth born of fear and...
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Were the Princes in the Tower murdered?
19 March 2026It's one of history's greatest mysteries - 'what happened to the Princes in the Tower?' In 1483, young Edward V and his brother Richard were...
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Tiberius and his Island of Depravity
17 March 2026The Roman Emperor Tiberius has a harrowing reputation based on stories surrounding his latter years on the island of Capri. Stories of debauchery...
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Murder on the California Trail | The Frontier
16 March 2026The words 'Donner Party' have become synonymous with disaster in the American imagination. In this week’s instalment of our Frontier miniseries,...
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
16 March 2026As Supreme Commander, Eisenhower spearheaded the successful Allied invasions of North Africa, Italy and Western Europe. He's consequently one of...
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