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The Aztecs
6 May 2021What we know about the Aztecs of Mexico often comes from the accounts of their Spanish conquerors. But the Aztec culture was far more sophisticated...
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How Corinth Became Christian
6 May 2021Occupied since around 3000 BC, the Ancient city of Corinth is not unique in its transition from a Pagan, Greco-Roman state to a Christian one. What...
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A Scandalous Duchess
5 May 2021Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston was a duchess who attracted scandal, a duchess who divided opinion, a duchess who refused to give up agency...
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Napoleon's Death
5 May 2021Six years of exile on a remote island blighted with unpleasant weather conditions, in lodgings far inferior to those enjoyed whilst leader of France,...
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Pre-historic Britain in Seven Burials with Alice Roberts
4 May 2021How much can a burial really tell us about our ancient past? Professor Alice Roberts is today's guest and, as her new book Ancestors demonstrates,...
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The Apollo Program with Kevin Fong
3 May 2021Getting to the moon was no easy feat, no matter how confident Kennedy may have sounded in his famous 1961 speech. NASA built a team from the ground...
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The Queer Shakespeare: John Lyly
3 May 2021John Lyly's name may not be so familiar. He was a playwright and poet writing at the same time as Shakespeare and, in his day, was more famous than...
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Napoleon
3 May 2021He is widely remembered as one of the most exceptional military commanders that the world has ever seen, a man whose influence was so pervasive that...
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The Truth About The Huns
2 May 2021The Huns! The name of this ancient people triggers a multiplicity of responses and evokes a number of images (nearly all of them negative). They...
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Amend: The Fight for America
2 May 2021Take a deep dive into the remaking of the American Constitution and the 14th amendment created in the wake of the American Civil War. The 14th...
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The Olympic Games
2 May 2021The most famous sporting event in the world is upon us, so it's only right that we consider what do we know about the ancient origins of the games...
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The Death of Hitler
1 May 2021Did Hitler shoot himself in the Führerbunker, or did he slip past the Soviets and escape to South America? There have been innumerable...
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