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Frostquake
18 February 2021In the winter of 1962-63, the UK experienced a different kind of lockdown as freezing temperatures and ten weeks of snow kept people trapped at home...
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Palmyra: Pearl of the Desert
18 February 2021Palmyra features in headlines today as a casualty of IS destruction, but during its heyday it was a monumental city set on an oasis in the Syrian...
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Besieging Masada
17 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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War Widows of WW2
17 February 2021After the Second World War, societies across the world struggled under a mass of social and political change. This disjointed period serves as the...
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Love Lives: From Cinderella to Frozen
16 February 2021We cover all the big topics on the podcast including weapons of mass destruction, climate change, great power rivalry and the struggle for...
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Hitler and Stalin
15 February 2021I am joined by Laurence Rees, the best selling author, who has met more people that had direct contact with both Hitler and Stalin than any other...
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Cluster Bombs
15 February 2021In 1943, Grimsby was hit by a new type of weapon: butterfly bombs, also know as cluster bombs. This episode from Dan Snow's History Hit features the...
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Myths of Masada
14 February 2021In 73 AD, 967 Jewish rebels against the Romans committed mass suicide atop the Masada Fortress. Or did they? In this second part of Tristan’s...
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Living Through the Dresden Firebombing with Victor Gregg
13 February 2021Victor Gregg is a veteran of World War Two and the Dresden Bombings, and travelled with Dan to visit Dresden a couple of years ago for a documentary....
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Lockdown Learning: The Rise of USA
12 February 2021For Lockdown Learning this week I am joined by Dr Fabian Hilfrich, head of American History at Edinburgh University. He takes us through from the...
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Alderney's Sunken German Arsenal
12 February 2021Alderney, like the rest of the Channel Islands, was occupied by German forces from 1940 to 1945. On Hitler's orders it was turned into a fortress,...
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The 18th Century Precedent for Trump's Impeachment
11 February 2021As the impeachment trial of Donald Trump got underway in the USA the 18th-century case of Warren Hastings, the former Governor-General of Bengal was...
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