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Coffee
9 May 2020Coffee. Most of us are addicted. We need it on Monday mornings, post nights out, during nights out, in fact every morning. And...
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23:35
VE Day: 75 Years
8 May 2020For most of us, VE Day conjures up black and white images of carefree servicemen and women dancing and beaming in Trafalgar Square, of Churchill...
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22:46
How should we remember WW2?
7 May 2020The question of wars and how we remember them has always fascinated me. With WW1 we seem to remember the enormous, tragic loss of life - captured...
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28:21
Pandemics through History
5 May 2020I have hooked up with the Timeline Channel on youtube to do History Hit Live three times a week. Sometimes I'll share the audio as a podcast on...
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20:57
Mudlarking
4 May 2020Lara Maiklem has scoured banks of the Thames for over 15 years in pursuit of the objects that the fast moving river water unearths. The Thames is...
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33:03
One Family: 200 Years of Continuous Military Service
3 May 2020Paul John Darran joined the army 1980. He was ninth generation of his family to do so. The story begins with his ancestor John Carberry joined the...
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Moscow's Communist Dorm
29 April 2020In 1931, an enormous apartment building was completed in Moscow. Challenging the Kremlin for architectural supremacy on the Moskva River, it...
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21:10
Globalisation in 1000 AD
27 April 2020Globalisation. It's a word we often associate with the politics, society and economics of our own lifetimes. But Valerie Hansen, an esteemed...
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17:53
Florence Nightingale
26 April 2020For soldiers of the Crimean War, perhaps the greatest adversary they faced was the Selimiye Barracks in Scutari, a makeshift hospital for wounded...
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27:09
Australia, Anzac and History
25 April 2020I was thrilled to have Mat McLachlan on the pod, one of Australia's foremost history presenters and writers. Using his encyclopaedic knowledge of...
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20:35
The Death of Hitler
24 April 2020Did Hitler shoot himself in the Führerbunker, or did he slip past the Soviets and escape to South America? There have been innumerable...
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26:08
The Black Death
22 April 2020In this podcast, Dan Snow is joined by Professor Mark Bailey, High Master of St Paul's School, London and Professor of Later Medieval History at...
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