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A President Incapacitated: Woodrow Wilson's Stroke
6 October 2020101 years ago this week, President Woodrow Wilson suffered a serious stroke which left him prone to "disorders of emotion, impaired impulse...
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Asylum on Saint Helena
5 October 2020Annina Van Neel showed me around Saint Helena, a small scrap of land in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. This island is the most significant...
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15:55
Vikings Conquer The World: The Dawn Of A New Era
5 October 2020Viking attacks continued in England, but Alfred the Great and his troops fought back. Maybe it's time for the conquerors of the North to go and...
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15:40
Birth Of An Empire: The Vikings In England
4 October 202010 years after the conquest and the very first victories, it's time for the Vikings to start building! It's time for setting down roots, from...
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23:10
War with Margaret MacMillan
4 October 2020Margaret MacMillan joined me on the podcast to discuss the ways in which war has influenced human society. We discussed how, in turn, changes in...
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55:26
Nero the Antichrist?
4 October 2020The Emperor Nero is one of antiquity's most infamous figures, having a particularly hostile relationship with the Christians. But did the early...
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19:25
MI9: The Secret Service for Escape and Evasion
3 October 2020Helen Fry joined me on the podcast to talk about the thrilling history of MI9. The WWII organisation engineered the escape of Allied forces from...
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23:14
How Steam Power Remade the World
2 October 2020John Darwin joined me on the podcast to discuss how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world order.
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29:32
Nazi Megastructures
2 October 2020Walking around Second World War fortifications, Patrick Bury is able to draw on his time in the infantry to tell the stories of the battles that...
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23:27
The Hunt For The Killers Of Julius Caesar
1 October 2020Peter Stothard joined me on the podcast to discuss the assassination of Julius Caesar. Many men killed Julius Caesar. Only one man was determined...
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15:25
Thor's Hammer
1 October 2020Set off with the Great Viking Army to conquer English Kingdoms. Find yourself in the midst of a conquest, battles and pillages. Also discover some...
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Agrippa: Rome's Forgotten Hero
1 October 2020There are few men in Roman history that can claim to have been as influential as Marcus Agrippa. The right-hand man of Octavian / Augustus, his...
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