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The British Republic
6 February 2020Paul Lay, editor of History Today, has written a great book about the rise and fall of Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate (1653–1659), England's sole...
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Flu pandemics. Then and Now.
5 February 2020'We are very very vulnerable' says the brilliant science author and journalist Laura Spinney.
Her fantastic book 'Pale Rider: The Spanish...
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Confronting a Nazi past
4 February 2020Derek Niemman and Noemie Lopian work together. Two people from very different backgrounds, they tour the world telling people about their family...
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Night of the Bayonets
29 January 202075 years ago this spring a fascinating but forgotten battle was fought in the dying days of the Second World War. A group of Georgians rose up...
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Max Eisen: Surviving Auschwitz
27 January 2020Max Eisen was only 15 when he and his family were taken from their Hungarian home to the infamous Auschwitz Concentration Camp during the Second...
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UnRoman Britain
26 January 2020How far did Roman culture and politics penetrate into Britain during the Roman occupation of Britannia?
Miles Russell, archaeologist and...
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The Anglo-Zulu War
22 January 2020Saul David - historian, broadcaster and author of several critically-acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction - comes on the show to discuss the...
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Hunting the Bismarck
20 January 2020In May 1941, the Royal Navy pursued Nazi Germany's largest battleship, the Bismarck, in the greatest chase story in the history of naval warfare....
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The Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz
19 January 2020In 1940 the Polish resistance decided it needed to send an agent to Auschwitz concentration camp. They were desperate to find out what was going on...
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'Seducing and Killing Nazis'
15 January 2020During the Second World War the Netherlands fell to advancing German forces in just a few hours. The Dutch found themselves under Nazi occupation....
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How History Inspires Environmental Activism
14 January 2020The world faces a unique environmental challenge. The scale of response to this looming catastrophe can be overwhelming. But economist and activist...
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The Commando Raid that Changed the Course of WW2
12 January 2020In October 1942 the British launched a small raid on the Channel Island of Sark. A cast of characters who gave their colleague Ian Fleming ideas for...
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