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How To Spot a Tithe Barn
7 August 2021Taxes are now an established aspect of our lives, but scattered across Britain’s countryside are reminders of their earliest days, when farmers...
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The Birth of the Internet
6 August 2021In the last 30 years, the internet has utterly changed the world in which we live and is now as vital as electricity in our daily lives. August 6,...
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WW1 & Gallipoli: Britain's Worst Defeat
6 August 2021What does the price of wheat and global food supplies have to do with one of the greatest disasters in the history of warfare? Why was the...
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The Witches of Lorraine
5 August 2021Between 1570 and 1630, there was intense persecution and thousands of executions of suspected witches in Lorraine, a small duchy on the borders of...
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Canada Confronts Its Past
5 August 2021The discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at former Canadian residential schools have has led to a crisis of identity for the country as it...
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The Lost Baths of Cleopatra
5 August 2021Cleopatra. Hers is one of the most famous names that endures from antiquity. The victor of a civil war. The mistress of Julius Caesar and Marc...
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How WWI Began
4 August 2021On August 4, 1914, Britain declared war on Germany and entered the First World War. This was a conflict of unparalleled savagery with industrialized...
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WW1: The Western Front
4 August 2021The Western Front of the First World War is a story of aristocratic generals sending ordinary men over the top to their deaths in futile frontal...
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Britain's Forgotten Olympic Heroes
3 August 2021The Olympics are a sporting event like no other and in this episode, we celebrate two great British Olympians of the past Anita Neil and Hugh...
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Battle of Brunanburh
3 August 2021When we think of great Medieval battles, many people imagine the Battles of Hastings or Agincourt. Another clash, however, between the kings of...
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The Gladiatrix
3 August 2021Mention the word gladiator and you would be forgiven for instantly thinking of the 2000 namesake epic movie. Of spectators watching on as men battled...
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Beards
2 August 2021For the Tudors and Elizabethans, a beard denoted masculinity while beardlessness indicated boyhood or effeminacy. How a man wore his beard -...
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