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The Miracle of Dunkirk
25 May 202080 years ago, ships were gathering in Kent to begin the rescue of the British Expeditionary Force. Britain faced the prospect of the worst defeat...
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Getting Inside the Mind of Hitler
24 May 2020No man knew Adolf Hitler as intimately as his trusted physician, Theodoor Morell. As part of Hitler's inner social circle, he assisted the leader...
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Akbar the Great
23 May 2020One of the greatest rulers of the 16th century was Akbar the Great, a man whose power and influence extended over much of the Indian subcontinent...
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The Shadow King: Henry VI
21 May 2020Henry VI came to the throne in exceptionally difficult circumstances. The untimely death of his warlike father, Henry V, placed the crown upon his...
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Celebrity
20 May 2020Greg Jenner has given my children so many hours of happiness as the historical brains behind the Horrible History tv shows and movie, not to...
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History and Human Nature
19 May 2020It's a belief which has dictated the writings of Machiavelli and Hobbes, Freud and Dawkins - that humans are fundamentally selfish and governed by...
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The Brontës and War
19 May 2020In this podcast I was joined by Emma Butcher, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English Literature at the University of Leicester. Emma took me...
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The Habsburgs
17 May 2020It was an honour to be joined by Martyn Rady to discuss one of history's most thrilling families, the Habsburgs. Ruling for almost a millennium,...
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Winston Churchill
14 May 202080 years ago this week, Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain and his...
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Pandemics: Science and History
12 May 2020I was thrilled to be joined by the legendary Peter Frankopan, Professor of Global History at Oxford University and bestselling author of 'The Silk...
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Migration in Medieval Europe
11 May 2020I was delighted to be joined by Miri Rubin of Queen Mary University, London. In a terrific new book, Miri has scooped up a seemingly modern topic...
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Europe's Tragedy: The Thirty Years War
10 May 2020The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe. It killed nearly a quarter of all Germans and transformed the map of the modern world....
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