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God's Changing Body Through History
20 December 2021While many traditions regard God to be incorporeal, some three thousand years ago in the Southwest Asian lands, a group of people worshipped a...
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King Herod
19 December 2021Thanks largely to his feature in the Gospel of Matthew, King Herod ‘the Great’ of Judaea is one of the most infamous figures from the whole of...
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The Battle of Agincourt Explained
19 December 2021The Battle of Agincourt looms large in the English historical and cultural imagination, this explainer wades through the mythology to help...
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Medieval Perceptions of Gender
18 December 2021Nonconforming beyond the limitations of what's typically expected of men and women has been happening for many centuries. A part of history and...
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The Ministry of Information: Snoopers, Spies and Censoring in WWII
17 December 2021Despite its Orwellian sounding name - the Ministry of Information was not something from a dystopian novel, but instead a government department that...
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The Unlikely Fate of the Wright Brothers
17 December 2021On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. The Wright Brothers took the...
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Tudor Box Set Binge
16 December 2021If you are planning your television viewing over the holidays, especially if you are looking forward to bingeing on the best Tudor dramas and...
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How to Party Like a Roman
16 December 2021Contrary to popular belief, parties in Ancient Rome were not all depraved wine-fuelled orgies. In fact, Roman get-togethers were relatively tame...
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Black Tudors: England's Other Countrymen
16 December 2021Our image of the Tudor era remains overwhelmingly white. But the black presence in England was much greater than has previously been recognised, and...
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Seducing and Killing Nazis
15 December 2021During the Second World War the Netherlands fell to advancing German forces in just a few hours. The Dutch found themselves under Nazi occupation....
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Uncovered: South America's Biggest Slave Uprising
15 December 2021On February 27 1763, thousands of enslaved people in the Dutch colony of Berbice—in present-day Guyana—launched a huge uprising against their...
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Building Medieval Churches
14 December 2021What is a perpendicular church? In this episode, Cat is on location! Invited by expert stonemason Andrew Ziminski to a spectacular perpendicular...
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