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Besieging Masada
7 February 2021Dramatically placed on a plateau with drops of 400m to the east and 90m to the west, Masada translates from Hebrew as fortress. It became just...
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Emily Davison with Kate Willoughby
6 February 2021In this episode, originally released in 2018, Dan talks to actor, activist, and "part-time suffragette" Kate Willoughby about Emily Davison, the...
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Lockdown Learning: Interwar Europe
5 February 2021For this episode of Lockdown Learning Professor Richard Toye joined me on the podcast to talk about the interwar period and answer the key...
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WW1: Finding The Dead
5 February 2021Dan talks to Richard van Emden about his book - Missing: the need for closure after the Great War, in this episode from the History Hit archive....
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The History of Social Media with Kara Swisher
4 February 2021Facebook was founded on the 4th of February 2004 and began as a tool to stay in touch with friends and family, but has ended up being a place...
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Beasts of Battle: Indian War Elephants
4 February 2021The four components of the Ancient Indian battlefield: infantry, cavalry, chariots … and elephants. These magnificent creatures were dominant in...
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The AIDS pandemic
3 February 2021In this episode of the podcast, I’m joined by Tash Walker and Adam Zmith, hosts of The Log Books podcast, to discuss the Aids pandemic of the...
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Secret History of Nuclear Testing
3 February 2021How do you test a weapon of mass destruction? A weapon whose potential you can only estimate. Since 1945, countries with nuclear capabilities have...
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Edges of Empire: Rome's Northernmost Town
2 February 2021Roughly two miles south of Hadrian’s Wall lie the remains of Roman Corbridge, the northernmost town of the Roman Empire. The site’s...
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How the Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery
1 February 2021Historian Michael Taylor joined me on the podcast to discuss the resistance of the British establishment to the ending of the slave trade.
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Gary Lineker on his 'D-Day Dodger' Grandfather
1 February 2021Gary Lineker's grandfather was one of the 'D-Day Dodgers': men who fought in the Italian campaign, who were accused of missing the supposedly harder...
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Elvis: Destined to Die Young
31 January 2021Sally Hoedel joined me on the podcast to talk about the turbulent life and career of Elvis Presley, King of Rock ‘n’ Roll.