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Cluster Bombs: A History
2 December 2020Maximization of damage. That’s the purpose of the cluster bomb. These weapons, which can be traced back to the First World War, when the Kaiser...
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Rebel Anthropologists Who Challenged Everything
1 December 2020Charles King joined me on the podcast to talk about a group of cultural anthropologist who fundamentally transformed conceptions of 'normality' in...
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Was Winston Churchill Racist?
30 November 2020The former Prime Minister has faced a renewed controversy as people are calling for his statues to be removed due to his racist views. We are...
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The Munich Agreement
30 November 2020The white paper of the Munich Agreement is famed as one of history's key stategic blunders. In this episode, Tim Bouverie takes Dan through the old...
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The Gay Men Who Took on Hitler
29 November 2020Chris Bryant joined me on the podcast to tell the story of the gay British politicians who were among the very first to warn Britain about the...
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Dura-Europos: The Syrian Pompeii
29 November 2020When we think of Pompeii, we remember the city which became frozen in time after a natural catastrophe. Well, in 1920, exactly 100 years ago,...
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Pompeii and the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
28 November 2020Pompeii is back in the news. An extraordinary new, touching discovery, found during the Great Pompeii Project of Professor Massimo Osanna and his...
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Elizabeth I with Helen Castor
27 November 2020Dan talks to Helen Castor about her book on Elizabeth I and the way she governed.
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Battle of Britain
27 November 2020In a moment of great danger to national survival, the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large scale attacks by the Luftwaffe. So...
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Pompeii and the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
26 November 2020Pompeii is back in the news. An extraordinary new, touching discovery, found during the Great Pompeii Project of Professor Massimo Osanna and his...
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The First Thanksgiving
26 November 2020Sarah Churchwell and Kathryn Gray joined me on the podcast to discuss the first Thanksgiving of 1621. They critique mythologies of Thanksgiving...
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Rebel Women
25 November 2020Sarah Lonsdale joined me on the podcast to tell the stories of radical women who challenged the status quo in the interwar years.
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