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Franz Hals: Painter of The Laughing Cavalier
6 January 2022One of the most famous paintings in London is The Laughing Cavalier of 1624 by Franz Hals, the great portrait artist of the Dutch Golden Age whose...
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Cannibalism
6 January 2022It’s a macabre topic to discuss, but also one that has fascinated people for generations. So what has archaeology revealed about cannibalism...
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Democratic Decline
6 January 2022The 6th of January marks one year since the United States Capitol attack of 2021, whereby a mob of supporters of Republican President Donald J....
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The 'Forgotten Bastards' of the Eastern Front
5 January 2022During the Second World War, from 1941 onwards, Stalin's Soviet Union was joined in a close but awkward coalition with the Western allies....
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Sitting Bull: the Life and Death of a Native American Chief
5 January 2022Sitting Bull, best known for his initiative and victory at the Battle of Little Bighorn, is a greatly revered Native American Chief. But he was...
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Leprosy
4 January 2022Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease, is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae. It’s a condition that can have a...
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Treasures of Ancient Egypt
4 January 2022Ramesses the Great, ego in the ancient world and Tutankhamun's sacred underwear. These are all covered in today's episode with Dr Campbell Price...
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2022: A Year of Major Anniversaries
3 January 2022Happy New Year from Not Just the Tudors! But what, looking back, can we look forward to in 2022? Our first episode of the year...
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
3 January 2022A 13-day political and military standoff took place in October 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Just 90 miles off the coast of Florida, the...
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Tutankhamun: Life, Legacy and Discovery
3 January 2022Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered by Howard Carter almost 100 years ago, and two years later they opened up the stone sarcophagus that held the...
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Alexander The Great vs Julius Caesar
2 January 2022They’ve both been described as the greatest military commander in the ancient world, but who really takes the title (if either of them)?...
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Climate Catastrophe in the 17th century
2 January 2022Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides - the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were both unprecedented and widespread....
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