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The Xiongnu: History's First Nomadic Empire?
9 April 2021Between the 3rd century BC and the 1st century AD, the Xiongnu inhabited the area surrounding Mongolia. They influenced the later Hun Empire, and had...
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WW2: The Secret British Resistance
9 April 2021What if the Battle of Britain had not been a success for the British? What was the plan had the Nazis successfully crossed the channel? Chris...
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What Britain Did to Nigeria
8 April 2021When we think of the British Empire we often think of India, Pakistan, Singapore, Burma or perhaps South Africa but an often underrepresented part of...
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Persia's Untapped Source: The Persepolis Fortification Texts
8 April 2021The Persepolis Fortification Tablets / Texts are the who’s who of the Ancient Achaemenid Empire, a unique insight into the administrative...
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Catherine the Great
7 April 2021Catherine the Great came from minor German nobility to become Empress of Russia and one of the most extraordinary women of the eighteenth century....
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Boer War: Kipling, Kingsley and Conan Doyle
7 April 2021In early 1900, Rudyard Kipling, Mary Kingsley and Arthur Conan Doyle crossed paths in South Africa during the Anglo-Boer War. Motivated in various...
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30 Years since the Kurdish Uprising
6 April 2021In the aftermath of the First Gulf War, groups rose up against Saddam Hussein's regime in a bid to win independence from Baghdad with devastating...
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Will This Be the New Roaring 20s?
5 April 2021Our impressions of the Roaring 20s are a time of economic growth, social change and in some cases wild debauchery, but were the Roaring 20s really a...
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WW1 & WW2's Biggest Conspiracies
5 April 2021Truth, rumour, conspiracy? Gill Bennett OBE had the job of sorting fact from fiction as chief historian of the Foreign Office from 1995-2005, and...
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300 years of British Prime Ministers: Part 1
4 April 2021We're heading back to the Eighteenth century as 300 years ago Sir Robert Walpole became the first prime minister. In this first episode of our Prime...
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Jewish Burial at the Time of Jesus
4 April 2021According to the Gospels, Jesus died and was removed from the cross on the eve of the Jewish Sabbath (Friday afternoon), before his body was...
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Violence Against Women in Victorian London
3 April 2021In the 1880s and 1890s Whitechapel, in London, become notorious for its violence especially towards women but what lessons can be drawn from this...
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