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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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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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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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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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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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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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1492: The Year the Spanish Monarchy Changed the World
10 January 20222022 marks the 530th anniversary of 1492 - the year in which Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille ended centuries of Muslim rule in Spain,...
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Crisis in Ukraine: From the 18th Century to Today
10 January 2022Since late 2013, Ukraine has been in crisis. But the problems there go much further back. To examine the history of the conflict in Ukraine, we...
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Was the League of Nations Doomed to Fail?
10 January 2022102 years ago on the 10th of January 1920, the League of Nations was formed out of the Treaty of Versailles. Its aim was to maintain peace after...
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Spinning in the Roman World
9 January 2022Spinning held an important place in ancient society, and no, we're not talking about ancient exercise classes. A task for women and slaves, it was...
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Obama and Merkel: The Extraordinary Partnership
9 January 2022U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are two of the world’s most influential leaders, together at the centre of some...
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