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Pertinax. Son of a Slave to Emperor of Rome.
7 August 2020The son of a former slave, Pertinax was the Roman Emperor who proved that no matter how lowly your birth, you could rise to the very top through...
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How and Why History: America, Japan and the Atomic Bomb
6 August 2020On 6 August 1945, an American B29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over Hiroshima. Three days later, Nagasaki was at the...
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30:25
Rum, Sodomy and the Lash?
5 August 2020The common sailor was a crucial engine of British prosperity and expansion up until the Industrial Revolution. From exploring the South Seas with...
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Hiroshima
5 August 2020On 6 August 1945 a B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay dropped a uranium bomb, nicknamed the 'Little Boy' onto the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It was the...
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The Road to 1914: Myths of Nationalism
4 August 2020This week in 1914 saw the outbreak of the First World War. In this special episode from the archive, Margaret MacMillan talks to her nephew Dan...
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Adolf Hitler's Rise To Power
4 August 2020In one of the strangest twists in political history, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party rose from a small provincial agitator into the largest political...
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Aftermath of World War One
3 August 2020In this History Hit live on Timeline Dan Snow was joined by Margaret MacMillan, professor at St Antony's College, Oxford University and author of...
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Gallipoli: the Endgame
3 August 2020In December 1915, some 135,000 allied troops, nearly 400 guns and 15,000 horses were collectively trapped in the bridgeheads at Anzac, Suvla and...
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Conan Doyle, Kipling and Kingsley in the Boer War
2 August 2020In early 1900, Rudyard Kipling, Mary Kingsley and Arthur Conan Doyle crossed paths in South Africa during the Anglo-Boer War. Motivated in various...
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Stone Circles
2 August 2020From Cornwall to Orkney, stone circles are scattered throughout the length and breadth of the British Isles. Their history stretches more than 2...
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Leading Germany's Resistance against The Nazis
1 August 2020Norman Ohler joined me on the pod to discuss two remarkable lovers who led Germany's resistance against the Nazis. Harro Schulze-Boysen and...
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The Tudors
31 July 2020Jessie Childs is an award-winning author, historian and expert on the Tudors. She joined me on the podcast to discuss this notorious family. What did...
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