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The Shortest War in History
26 August 2021On 27 August 1896, the British Empire went to war with the Zanzibar Sultanate for approximately 38 minutes! It is the shortest war in history. It...
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25:55
The Lost Tomb of Cleopatra
26 August 2021Among the rulers of Ancient Egypt, Cleopatra VII has long held a place in legend, her story having been told in folklore, by Shakespeare and in...
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28:15
WW2: The Great Imperial War
25 August 2021Most consider the Second World War to have been fought between 1939-1945 but, as you'll hear in this podcast, Richard Overy believes that the...
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25:18
WW2: The Doolittle Raid
25 August 2021It's one of the great stories of American military history; The Doolittle Raid. In 1942 after the humiliation assault on Pearl Harbour and determined...
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Ancient Afghanistan: The Land of a Thousand Cities
24 August 2021Stretched along the north of the Hindu Kush mountain range and the south of the Oxus river, the history of the ancient region of Bactria envelops...
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The Rise of Marseilles: France's Oldest City
24 August 2021Today it is the second largest city in France. But Marseilles is also the country’s oldest city. Founded at the turn of the 7th century BC...
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28:08
Human Sacrifice
24 August 2021Making sacrifices to the Gods is common practice in religion, even today. From symbolic to physical offerings, this is something that has happened...
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The Biblical Apocalypse in Münster
23 August 2021Between February 1534 and June 1535, the German city of Münster was seized and ruled over by a radical group of Protestant Christians called...
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The Fall of the Soviet Union
23 August 2021In August 1991 there was an attempted coup in the Soviet Union as communist hard-liners sought to re-establish the dominance of Soviet rule in Russia...
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The Cold War & the Power of Defence Spending
23 August 2021As the international community moved from World War to Cold War in the second half of the 20th century, the defence requirements of the United...
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National Security in Trump's White House
22 August 2021H. R. McMaster is both a soldier and a scholar and has served at the highest level in government as National Security Advisor to President Trump. He...
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The Rise of Hannibal
22 August 2021He was one of the greatest enemies the Romans ever faced. An excellent general and a larger-than-life figure, he led an army across the alps and...
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