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The Roman Navy in Britain
9 July 2020I was thrilled to be joined on the podcast by the wonderful Simon Elliott. In this episode, Simon and I got to grips with the epic Roman Navy, and...
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Mata Hari: The Truth Behind The Legend
8 July 2020More than 70 years after her death, Mata Hari is still a household name throughout the Western world. So who was this daughter of a Dutch...
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28:35
How and Why History: The Birth of Scotland
7 July 2020The recorded story of Scotland begins with the arrival of the Romans in the 1st century, when the province of Britannia reached as far north as...
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20:53
Statues, History and How We Use The Past
6 July 2020I was joinded by Dr Charlotte Riley, a feminist historian of 20th century Britain. Whilst lecturing on the Labour Party, decolonization, and...
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Assassination, Fascism and The Abdication Crisis
5 July 2020Alex Larman has struck gold. He discovered one of the rarest and most precious things in the history world: an unknown source which shines a...
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Housesteads and Hadrian's Wall
5 July 2020Housesteads Roman Fort is one of the great, surviving treasures of Roman Britain. Once an auxiliary fort, it occupied a dominant position on...
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Myths of the Titanic
4 July 2020If you want to know anything about RMS Titanic, Tim Maltin's your man. He is one of the world’s leading experts on the Titanic and has an...
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Machiavelli
3 July 2020Since the release of Alexander Lee's masterly new work on Niccolò Machiavelli, I just had to get him on the pod to hear about this infamous man...
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24:28
Hitler's Titanic
2 July 2020Roger Moorhouse is an historian of the Third Reich and WW2, author of The Devils' Alliance, Killing Hitler & Berlin at War. He joined me on the...
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Origins of Biological & Chemical Warfare
2 July 2020The origins of biological and chemical warfare stretch far back; modern technology has not brought about these terrifying weapons. Throughout...
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History's Deadliest Influenza Pandemic
1 July 2020Germans soldiers called it Blitzkatarrh, British soldiers called it Flanders Grippe, but the 1918 pandemic was most commonly known as 'Spanish...
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How and Why History: William the Conqueror
30 June 2020On 14 October 1066, Norman invaders led by Duke William of Normandy won a decisive victory over the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson. But why did...
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