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Antonine Wall
12 July 2020In c.142 AD the Emperor Antoninus Pius ordered the construction of a new wall in Northern Britain. Situated between the Firth of Forth and the...
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Anne Glenconner: Princess Margaret's Confidante
11 July 2020Anne Glenconner has been at the centre of the royal circle from childhood, when she met and befriended the future Queen Elizabeth II and her...
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A New Discovery at Stonehenge
10 July 2020I was delighted to be joined by one of the most important people in the history world at the moment: Professor Vincent Gaffney. He is the leading...
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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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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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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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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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