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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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Churchill's Cook
23 February 2020Annie Gray is a wonderful historian and broadcaster. Her latest project is a biography of the woman who cooked for Churchill. Georgina Landemare...
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Georgian Musings on Homosexuality
20 February 2020Eamonn O'Keeffe is a young Oxford Researcher in the midst of a PhD. He stopped off in Wakefield Library to look at a journal Yorkshire farmer...
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The Boundless Sea
19 February 2020We are a land animal. But millions of us have taken to the sea to live, fight, travel, eat, escape and seek fame and fortune. I am obsessed with...
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The Boy Who Followed His Father Into Auschwitz
17 February 2020This is the most remarkable father and son story I have ever come across.
We are still marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of...
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West Africa before the Europeans
16 February 2020Toby Green has been fascinated by the history of West Africa for decades after he visited as a student and heard whispers of history that didn’t...
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Suicide at the Fall of Nazi Germany
13 February 2020There is almost no end to the dark secrets that emerge from the smashed ruins of 1945 Europe. Dr Florian Huber has spent years researching the...
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The Adventuress
12 February 2020In the 1930s Lady Lucy Houston was one of the richest women in England and a household name, notorious for her virulent criticisms of the government,...
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A Very Stable Genius
10 February 2020Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig are both Pulitzer Prize winning journalists at the Washington Post.
They've written a new book with yet more...
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Dresden. 75 years on.
9 February 202075 years ago this week Dresden, in Saxony, known as the ‘jewel box’ because of its stunning architecture was obliterated by British and...
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