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Mary Queen of Scots with Kate Williams
22 March 2022Dan is joined by Professor Kate Williams to discuss the rise and fall of Mary Queen of Scots, one of the most dramatic and tragic figures of the...
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40:52
The End of Monasteries
21 March 2022The dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII ended almost a millennium of monastic life in England, resulting in a dislocation of people...
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The British Way of War
21 March 2022His ideas were cast aside in the early 20th century, but later went on to help Allied forces win the Second World War, but who was Julian Corbett...
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35:08
The Confederate States of America
21 March 2022The Confederacy was more than an army. It was a national project. A whole state, albeit an internationally unrecognised one, formed between...
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Military Drones
20 March 2022Drone technology has transformed the way we wage war today. They have been key in every major conflict since at least 2008, including the current...
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Young Caesar vs Marc Antony
20 March 2022What happened after the Ides of March? How did the Romans go from co-ordinated assassinations to the Pax Romana? From Tyranny to prosperity? In...
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Prison Camps in WW2 Britain
20 March 2022From the summer of 1940, approximately 30,000 so-called ‘enemy aliens’ were indefinitely sent to internment camps across...
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Lost Towns of Britain
19 March 2022It's hard to imagine the familiar places around you disappearing forever. But all across Britain, there are once inhabited towns and...
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200 Years of British-Russian Relations
18 March 2022Russia and the UK have very different political structures and ambitions, from their alliance at the Battle of Navarino in 1827 to the historic...
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ENDURANCE22: Questions & Reflections
18 March 2022To mark the end of a truly epic journey, Dan wanted to hear from you -the listeners- those that have dedicatedly followed the story of...
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52:48
Henry VIII's Courtier, Sir Thomas Wyatt
17 March 2022No one represented the complexities of the court of Henry VIII better than Sir Thomas Wyatt, a skilled diplomat who was forced to live with the...
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Saint Patrick
17 March 2022Man, myth or legend... who was the real Saint Patrick? Did he really banish all the snakes from Ireland? Where does the shamrock tradition come...
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