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Stealing from the Saracens: Islam and European Architecture
17 August 2020From Notre-Dame Cathedral to the Houses of Parliament, European architecture is indebted to the Muslim world. Diana Darke joined me on the pod to...
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Britain in The Great War
16 August 2020I was thrilled to be joined by Simon Heffer, author of biographies on the historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle, the composer Ralph Vaughan...
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War Elephants
16 August 2020Move over Hannibal. More over Carthage. This podcast is all about a much BIGGER elephant power in antiquity. A power that, at its height,...
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VJ Day: 75 Years
15 August 202075 years ago today, on 15 August 1945, Victory over Japan Day marked the end of one of the most devastating episodes in British military history,...
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Chinese Philosophy
14 August 2020Michael Puett is Professor of Chinese History at Harvard and has lectured widely at the world's leading universities. His course in Chinese...
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Women Scientists in WW1
14 August 2020In considerations of the First World War, the roles of female scientists in supporting the war effort have been shockingly under acknowledged. Dan...
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The Korean War: An American Perspective
13 August 2020I was thrilled to be joined by H. W. Brands. He's authored 30 books on American history and his works have twice been selected as finalists for...
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'Killing for the Roman Republic'
13 August 2020In 281/280 BC, the Hellenistic King Pyrrhus ventured to southern Italy to aid the Italiote-Greek city of Tarentum against a rising power based in...
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Vindolanda
12 August 2020Dan finds out what's going on with recent excavations at Vindolanda, one of the largest Roman forts near Hadrian's Wall. All manner of discoveries...
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How and Why History: Europe's Witch Craze
11 August 2020In 1597, King James VI of Scotland published a compendium on witchcraft called Daemonologie that laid down the kind of trial and...
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African Experiences in WW1
11 August 2020The First World War is most commonly portrayed using records of young white Europeans, silencing the stories of the 4 million non-white non-Europeans...
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The Origins of WW1
11 August 2020The First World War is one of the great turning points of the last couple of centuries. Debates surrounding its origins, however, remain endless. In...
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