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Before 9/11: A History of Hijacking
6 September 2021As the world prepares to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks two decades on, we discuss the history of plane hijackings. From politically...
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Winston Churchill: From Failures to Finest Hour
5 September 2021Churchill is one of the great figures of history and this totemic figure is often cited as one of the greatest British figures of all time. However,...
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Romans vs Caledonians: The Battle of Mons Graupius
5 September 2021In 83/84 AD a battle was fought somewhere in Scotland between the Roman forces of Gnaeus Julius Agricola and the 'Caledonians' – the great...
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37:58
The Unheard Tapes of Bomber Command
4 September 2021Over 55,500 men died flying with Bomber Command during World War Two; more than the number who serve in the Royal Air Force today. Flying at night...
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How To Save Medieval Churches
4 September 2021With Christianity dominating Europe, the Church became one of the most powerful institutions in Britain during the Medieval period and its places of...
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53:11
The Start of WWII
3 September 2021On September 1 1939 Nazi Germany invaded Poland followed two days later by France and the United Kingdom declaring war on Germany and beginning the...
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Before 9/11: The Day Wall Street Exploded
3 September 2021At lunchtime on 16 September 1920, a horse drawn cart exploded on the busiest corner of the Financial District of New York. To find out more about...
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Tudors in Love
2 September 2021The dramas of courtly love have captivated readers and dreamers for centuries. Yet they’re often dismissed as something that existed only in the...
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Digging Medieval Battlefields
2 September 2021How different is battlefield archaeology compared to other disciplines? Do local legends ever help track down evidence in a field? And why are potato...
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Roman Camps in Britain
2 September 2021When one mentions Roman military installations you would be forgiven for instantly thinking of their forts, the remains of which we can see today...
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Are Mandatory Vaccines New?
1 September 2021Vaccines have become a subject of great controversy in recent months but the requirement to have them is far from new. Almost since the earliest...
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The Boy Who Followed His Father to Auschwitz
1 September 2021In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was arrested by the Nazis. Along with his sixteen-year-old son Fritz, he was sent to...
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