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Captain Cook: The Aboriginal Perspective
30 April 2021Captain Cook has been celebrated, wrongly, as the first European to discover Australia but many now believe it is time to reappraise his legacy...
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Operation Barbarossa
30 April 2021Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union on Sunday 22 June 1941 was one of the bloodiest military campaigns mankind has ever known. Now, BAFTA winning...
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Bridewell: The Palace that became a Prison
29 April 2021In the heart of Shakespeare's London, there was a palace that had become a prison: Bridewell. Professor Duncan Salkeld has explored the records of...
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Not Just the Tudors
29 April 2021When thinking about the 16th century the Tudor dynasty often comes to the fore, but the was so much more to this extraordinary period to be explored....
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Velazquez and the Spanish Court
29 April 2021Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Laura Cumming - author and art critic for The Observer - about Velázquez, arguably the greatest genius of...
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Henry VIII's Billionaire Wardrobe
29 April 2021Venetian ambassador Sebastian Giustinian described Henry VIII as the 'best dressed sovereign in the world'. The King spent the equivalent of £2...
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An Early Modern Teenage Werewolf
29 April 2021The witch-hunts of sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe are well-known. But did you know that some 300 people were convicted of being werewolves?...
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The Battle of Okinawa
28 April 2021The last major confrontation of the Second World War and the largest amphibious assault of the Pacific theatre, the Battle of Okinawa ended in Allied...
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WW2: The Texel Uprising
28 April 2021In the dying days of the Second World War, a group of Georgians rose up against their German overlords on the Dutch island of Texel. Thousands of...
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Blood and Iron: The German Empire
27 April 2021German unification in 1871 immediately altered the balance of power in Europe and across the world, but what did its existence and expansion in...
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Chernobyl: Memories of a Survivor
26 April 2021On April 26th 1986 reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded sending a vast plume of radioactive material into the atmosphere, but what...
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Secret History of Soviet Nerve Agents
26 April 2021The use of nerve agents is synonymous with Russian espionage for those of us who remember the recent poisonings of Alexei Navalny, Sergei and...
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