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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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18:36
A Curious History of Sex
21 April 2020Sex. There's a lot of it about. We talk about war, chaos and atrocities on this podcast a lot although, thankfully, few of us have first hand...
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20:40
Criminal Subculture in the Gulag
19 April 2020I was thrilled to be joined by Mark Vincent, an expert in criminal subculture and prisoner society in Stalinist Labour camps. Mark has looked at...
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20:12
Working Motherhood
16 April 2020Dr Helen McCarthy, lecturer in modern British history at the University of Cambridge, joins Dan to discuss the complicated past of working...
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28:54
The Aftermath of WW1
15 April 2020In this podcast I was joined by Margaret MacMillan, professor at St Antony's College, Oxford University and author of 'Peacemakers: The Paris...
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20:28
British Ship Building
14 April 2020In this episode, Dan chats to British naval historian and maritime artist, Richard Endsor, about seventeenth century ship building. It was the...
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27:15
Apollo 13
13 April 2020I was joined by Kevin Fong, who took me through one of the most extraordinary stories in the history of exploration. Apollo 13 was the seventh...
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26:04
The House of Byron
12 April 2020Emily Brand has written a brilliant book about the Byrons. Not just the great romantic, poet and adventurer, George Gordon Byron, but his...
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19:15
The Prime Minister Hospitalised: Lloyd George's Influenza
10 April 2020In September 1918 David Lloyd George, the charismatic wartime Prime Minister, visited the city of Manchester, attended a vast public gathering and...
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34:14
How Pandemics Made the Modern World
9 April 2020Professor Frank Snowden is currently on lockdown in Rome, experiencing at first hand life in a pandemic. For years he has written about the great...
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