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Transforming Our Understanding of The Battle of Kursk
22 July 2020The Battle of Prokhorovka was one of the largest tank battles in military history. Taking place on the Eastern Front, it was fought on 12 July...
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How and Why History: The Genius of Shakespeare
21 July 2020Arguably the world’s greatest ever dramatist, after five and a half centuries William Shakespeare remains as popular as ever. But how did he...
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How Democracy Dies
20 July 2020I was thrilled to be joined on the podcast by the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, Anne Applebaum. Anne's written extensively on...
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Soldiers and Military History
19 July 2020I am very excited to be joined by Colonel Kevin W. Farrell, who spent over 30 years in uniform and commanded at the platoon, company, and...
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Horse Archery
19 July 2020The horse archer was one of the most feared warriors of antiquity. Triumphing mobility and fluidity, these swift skirmishers came to epitomise a...
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The Road to American Politics
18 July 202010 years after the expulsion of the British, leading US figures including Washington, Hamilton and Jefferson came together to draw up plans for...
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The Apollo Program
17 July 2020Getting to the moon was no easy feat, no matter how confident Kennedy may have sounded in his famous 1961 speech. NASA built a team from the...
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The Yalta Conference
16 July 2020In the February 1945, the U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin met at an...
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A History of Assassinations
15 July 2020Kenneth Baker is a British politician and a former Conservative MP who served in the cabinets of Margaret Thatcher and John Major as Environment...
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How and Why History: The Spread of Christianity
14 July 2020In the first century after his crucifixion, the teachings of Jesus quickly spread throughout the Greco-Roman world and his early followers often...
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Britain's First All Women Military Hospital
13 July 2020When the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett...
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Henry III: The Pacific King
12 July 2020David Carpenter joined me on the podcast to examine one of England's most remarkable monarchs. Just nine years old when he came to the throne in...
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