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Loot? Spoils? Artefacts? What to Do with Our Museums
8 April 2020Our museums are full of stuff taken, bought, stolen and gifted from foreign countries. It feels like we face a reckoning. What shall we do with...
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Death by Shakespeare
6 April 2020Poison, swordplay and bloodshed. Shakespeare’s characters met their ends in a plethora of gruesome ways. But how realistic were they? And did...
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The Battle of Okinawa
3 April 2020The last great battle of the Second World War was fought on the island of Okinawa. After 83 blood-soaked days, almost a quarter of a million...
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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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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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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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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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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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