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Pandemics: Science and History
12 May 2020I was thrilled to be joined by the legendary Peter Frankopan, Professor of Global History at Oxford University and bestselling author of 'The Silk...
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31:28
Migration in Medieval Europe
11 May 2020I was delighted to be joined by Miri Rubin of Queen Mary University, London. In a terrific new book, Miri has scooped up a seemingly modern topic...
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27:56
Europe's Tragedy: The Thirty Years War
10 May 2020The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe. It killed nearly a quarter of all Germans and transformed the map of the modern world....
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19:52
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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22:15
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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