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The Origins of Civilisation
12 September 2021The world is constantly changing, and so has the perception of civilisation, but what exactly are the origins of this concept? Helping us...
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9/11: The Fire Commissioner at Ground Zero
11 September 2021On the morning of September 11th, 2001 terrorists flew planes into both the World Trade Centre towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington...
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Edward III's Failed Leopard Coin
11 September 2021The leopard coin, which is considered the last 'unsuccessful' was re-called shortly after release. But did this coinage make more of an impact than...
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The Blitz: An Alternative History
10 September 2021Between September 1940 and May 1941, the German Luftwaffe relentlessly pounded British cities with bombs in an attempt to force the British to...
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9/11: From the 105th Floor
10 September 2021For the majority of us, our experience of 9/11 was transmitted through a TV screen, radio, newspaper or even history book. But Joe Dittmar’s...
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Making Babies in the 17th Century
9 September 2021Making babies was a mysterious process for people in early modern England. Their ideas about conception, pregnancy, and childbirth tell us much...
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America's Secret President
9 September 2021In October 1919 President Woodrow Wilson suffered a massive stroke leaving him paralyzed and partially blind. In the face of this crisis of...
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Sex in Ancient Rome
9 September 2021We’ve covered bloody battles, we’ve covered stunning cities, we’ve covered civilisations far away from the ancient Mediterranean. But in some...
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Trident: Does the Nuclear Deterrent Work?
8 September 2021With the release of the nuclear submarine TV series, Vigil, Dr Nick Ritchie, Senior Lecturer at the University of York and the UK’s leading...
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9/11: Evacuating Ground Zero
8 September 2021At 8:46 am on 11 September 2001 the first plane hit the North Tower of the World Trade Centre in Lower Manhattan. Over the next 9 hours, almost half...
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The Normans
7 September 2021The Norman conquest of England in 1066 was one of the great milestones of English history but there were in fact many Norman invasions and their...
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Viking Ships
7 September 2021The Vikings are remembered fundamentally as seafaring people, and how could they be so if not for their ships? In this episode, Cat speaks to a world...
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