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Sharpe is Back! Bernard Cornwell
24 October 2021Watch out loyal servants of Napoleon, Sharpe is back! In this episode, Dan sits down with legendary author Bernard Cornwell to discuss the return of...
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Mavia: Arabia's Warrior Queen
24 October 2021To fight against the Roman empire and then make an alliance with them took a certain courage and tenacity. In this episode we are introduced to...
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Tuskegee Airmen: A WW2 Pilot's Story
23 October 2021The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American military aviators in American military history. They faced discrimination and segregation at...
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Medieval Treasures at the National Archives
23 October 2021The National Archives can be seen as any medieval historian's candy store. It's filled with an amazing variety of materials, from the Magna Carta to...
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31:57
Drone War in Vietnam
22 October 2021Drones are often considered among the most modern elements of warfare, and their use doesn't regularly feature in stories of the Vietnam War. But as...
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Britain's Overlooked Hero: From the Trenches to the Blitz
21 October 2021Serving on the front lines of the First World War, the homefront of the Second World War and as a community leader throughout his life, George...
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Massacre of the Huguenots
21 October 2021The royal wedding of Marguerite de Valois and Henri de Navarre on 18 August 1572, was designed to reconcile France’s Catholics and Protestants -...
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Ancient Kazakhstan: Gold of the Great Steppe
21 October 2021Gold and horses! 2,500 years ago, in the area of the Great Steppe that is now Eastern Kazakhstan, an extraordinary ancient Scythian culture...
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The Battle of Trafalgar
20 October 2021On 21 October 1805, A British fleet commanded by Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson met the combined might of the French and Spanish fleets off the coast of...
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How States Become Sea Powers
20 October 2021Andrew Lambert has written a magisterial history of sea power states, and the tools and methods of control they used to exert influence. From the...
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How Brutish Were Our Ancestors?
19 October 2021Was life for our ancient ancestors brutish and short or did they exist as noble savages free and living in harmony with nature and each other? Many...
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Vikings & Mice in the Azores
19 October 2021The Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal in the middle of the Atlantic, was said to be discovered in 1427 by Portuguese explorer Diogo de Silves....
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