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Division. Corruption. Incompetence: A History of Spain
13 March 2020Professor Paul Preston doesn’t pull his punches. His magisterial new history of modern Spain is called 'A People Betrayed'. He is the greatest...
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The Human Tide
10 March 2020I was thrilled to chat to Paul Morland, a historian who uses population to explain almost all the major global shifts and events of the last two...
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Coronavirus - Lessons from History
9 March 2020Professor John Oxford is a virologist. He is one of the world's leading experts on influenza.
He is a leader in the study of the great...
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Britain in the 1980s
8 March 2020Dominic Sandbrook is one of Britain’s most prolific historians, working his way through a series on Britain since the Second World War. His most...
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Coronavirus is NOT the plague
5 March 2020It came from Asia via the Middle East and Italy. But, says 17th Century historian, Rebecca Rideal, the parallels with the Black Death, The Plague,...
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Champagne Riots
4 March 2020Rebecca Gibb is a Master of Wine. A ninja who can sniff out a Merlot from a Margaux at 50 paces. I know ABSOLUTELY nothing about wine other than I...
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The Discovery of the Universe
3 March 2020The universe has always been there, kind of, but it took intelligent life on earth billions of years to start to grapple with its nature. Carolyn...
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The First President
2 March 2020George. Where did it all go wrong?
George Washington could have had a comfortable career as a loyal member of HIs Majesty's Virginia militia...
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The Bombing War
1 March 202075 years ago this Spring, the aerial assault on Germany was reaching a crescendo as city after city was devastated by British and American bomber...
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The Irish War of Independence
27 February 2020Dan made a stupid comment on twitter. Irish history twitter melted down. So we did a pod on why.
100 years ago the Irish War of...
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Guernsey: Voices of the Occupation
26 February 2020This year marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Channel Islands. Dan went to meet four people who remember the war years on the islands...
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‘One of Our Greatest Living Historians’
24 February 2020Natalie Zemon Davis is a legend. One of the most influential and versatile contemporary historians. A pathbreaking scholar of early modern...
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