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Pompeii’s Indian Statuette
12 August 2021Among Pompeii’s great wealth of surviving artefacts is one with a rich globe trotting history that only goes to emphasise the interconnected nature...
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England's Great Viking Battle
11 August 2021On 11 August 991 one of the most important anglo-Viking battles took place near Maldon in Essex. This clash was immortalised in one of the finest...
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The Korean War
11 August 2021Sandwiched between the Second World War and the conflict in Vietnam, the Korean War has often been termed 'The Forgotten War' in the United States....
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Royal Mistresses
10 August 2021The role of the royal mistress may, on the face of it, seem a simple position but in reality, there was a lot more to being a royal mistress than it...
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10 Key Roman Emperors
10 August 2021Love them or loathe them, the Roman emperors were some of the most influential figures in history. In this episode Barry Strauss, Professor of...
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The Walls That Made Wales
10 August 2021For thousands of years, the building of walls has played an essential role in shaping the world as we know it; from being used to monitor populations...
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Henry VIII: Defender of the Faith
9 August 2021Five hundred years ago in 1521, the title 'Defender of the Faith' was bestowed by Pope Leo X upon King Henry VIII for his defence of the Catholic...
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The Bombing of Nagasaki
9 August 2021The second atomic strike on the city of Nagasaki is less well known than the one a few days earlier on Hiroshima, but was it more influential in...
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The Nuclear Button & US Presidents
9 August 2021It’s a devastating weapon of mass destruction, and in the United States the power to use it belongs to one person: the President. Since the...
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Sisters at War: The Rise and Fall of Elagabalus
8 August 2021Often found high on the list of Rome’s worst emperors, the short reign of the teenager Elegabalus in the early 3rd century AD is filled with...
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The Ultimate Cold War Spy Story
7 August 2021A Soviet double agent at the top of his game, a deadly game of cat and mouse with the KGB and one of the most daring escapes of the Cold War from the...
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The Origins of English
7 August 2021Approximately 1.35 billion people use it, either as a first or second language, so English and the way that we speak it has a daily impact on huge...
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