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Origins of the Spanish Flu
2 April 2020This episode features military historian Douglas Gill who has extensively researched the origins of the Spanish Influenza as it emerged in 1915...
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Valkyrie: The Warrior Women of the Viking World
1 April 2020I was thrilled to have Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir on the pod. We talked about Viking women, old Norse-Icelandic sagas, mythology and...
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35:47
Battle of Britain 'What Ifs'
30 March 2020Dr. Jamie Wood and Professor Niall Mackay at the University of York are mathematicians who love history. Sensible dudes. They released a paper...
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29:07
A Strange Bit of History
29 March 2020We were delighted to have comedy royalty on the podcast. Omid Djalili talked to me about one of his earliest stage creations, first performed at...
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32:13
How AI is Safeguarding Maritime Heritage
26 March 2020There are more historic artefacts on our ocean floor than there are in every museum in the world put together. Over thousands of years ships...
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24:58
The Real Thomas Cromwell
25 March 2020Everyone is Thomas Cromwell obsessed at the moment. The man who rose to be the most powerful member of Henry VIII's court, his Lord Privy Seal,...
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27:24
Britain's Fightback
23 March 2020Daniel Todman is a Professor of Modern History at Queen Mary. He has just published his epic study of how during the Second World War Britain...
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37:16
How the Earth Shaped Human History
22 March 2020Great leaders? Industrial change? Revolutions? If you thought these were the things that shaped history, think again. Back by popular demand, I...
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26:15
Mystery of the Alexander the Great Coin Hoard
19 March 2020Off the coast of the Gaza Strip fishermen have been discovering coins of extreme rarity and importance. They date from the brief reign of...
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28:51
Small Men on the Wrong Side of History
17 March 2020Dan chats with journalist and author Ed West about Ed's conservative views, which make him an anomaly among his peers. They explore why...
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26:49
How to Fight anti-Semitism
16 March 2020In this episode, Dan meets New York Times journalist and writer Bari Weiss, who grew up near and attended the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsberg,...
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Jan Stangreciuk: Veteran. Hero. Guinea Pig.
15 March 2020Of all the clubs in the world, perhaps the most extraordinary is the Guinea Pig Club, a group of Second World War veterans that suffered terrible...
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