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The Birth of the Roman Empire
16 January 202216 January 27 BC is a date sometimes associated with the beginning of the Roman Empire. It was on that day that Octavian received the name...
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Eugenics with Adam Rutherford
16 January 2022Eugenics has been used in attempts throughout history, and across continents, to gain power and assert control.
In this episode, we trace...
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47:46
An English Knight's Armour
15 January 2022Knights in their armour is one of the most enduring images of the Middle Ages, perhaps the first thing that comes to mind and a role that many of...
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34:00
Britain's Only War Crimes Trial
14 January 2022In 1999, the UK’s first and only war crimes trial for murder perpetrated during the Holocaust took place. The extraordinary court case brought...
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40:54
Tudor True Crime
14 January 2022The true-crime genre - stories of actual murders and other crimes that are then fictionalised - is not a new phenomenon. More than four...
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41:52
Elizabeth I & Mary, Queen of Scots
13 January 2022Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots were cousins who never met - but their fates were intertwined. As their nations were engulfed in religious...
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The Seleucid Empire: In the Shadow of Rome
13 January 2022At its height, the Seleucid Empire stretched from Thrace (modern day Bulgaria) to the Indus River Valley. Emerging from the tumultuous...
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21:48
George Washington: The First President
13 January 2022George. Where did it all go wrong? George Washington could have had a comfortable career as a loyal member of His Majesty's Virginia militia and...
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33:42
When the British Burnt the Capitol with Peter Snow
12 January 2022In 1814, a British expeditionary force landed in Maryland marched on Washington, brushed aside an American army and stormed into the US capital. The...
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25:51
The Rule of Laws
12 January 2022The laws now enforced throughout the world are almost all modelled on systems developed in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries....
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30:45
Vikings In the Frankish Kingdom
11 January 2022The Kingdom of the Franks was the largest post-Roman barbarian kingdom in Western Europe, ruled by the Franks during Late Antiquity and the Early...
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26:55
Digging for Britain with Professor Alice Roberts
11 January 20222021 was a bumper year for archaeological discoveries across Britain. In this episode, we go on a whistlestop tour of some of the most notable...
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