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Inside the Icelandic Witch Trials
31 October 2025Picture a witch. Chances are, you're thinking of a woman.
But in 17th century Iceland, over 90% of the people killed for being a witch, were...
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Medieval Hallowe'en
31 October 2025Come with us down the dark, damp woodland lane for Gone Medieval's Halloween Spooktacular.
Matt Lewis is joined by Amy Boucher and Alix...
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Ancient Irish Funeral Traditions
31 October 2025Have you ever been to an Irish wake? If so, you may have heard of the ancient tradition of keening or the superstition of the 'hungry grass'. In...
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American Origins of Halloween
30 October 2025How did the pre-Christian commemoration of Samhain travel across the seas from Ancient Ireland to America? And how did it evolve into the...
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Origins of Yoga
30 October 2025Warrior, Cobra, Downward Dog. If you do Yoga today, those are poses you’re surely aware of. But where and when did Yoga originate?
In this...
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Diary of Samuel Pepys
30 October 2025Professor Suzannah Lipscomb unlocks the pages of one of the most extraordinary diaries ever written. Samuel Pepys chronicled his life in...
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Truth About Irish Funeral Beliefs
30 October 2025What are the origins of keening for the dead? What is the history of Irish wakes? And why must you never put a coffin down on the way to the...
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What Caused Europe's Witch Hysteria?
29 October 2025Across early modern Europe, fear spread like wildfire; between the 15th and 17th centuries, tens of thousands were accused, tortured, and executed...
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How Bloody Was 'Bloody Mary'?
28 October 2025Before Mary I was Queen, no other woman had worn the crown of England.
This made her a Tudor trailblazer, and a target.
During her...
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Owain Glyndwr, Welsh Rebel
28 October 2025Who was the self-proclaimed Prince of Wales, who was foretold in myth to free Wales from the tyrannical English and who was also a fabled...
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Was the American Revolution a World War?
27 October 2025What makes a war a World War? If it's the involvement of multiple major world powers, will France, Spain and the Netherlands do?
If it's...
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'She Devil' Serial Poisoner of Victorian England
27 October 2025Sarah Dazley was one of the most infamous women in the world for a moment in 1843 when she was accused of poisoning not one but two former...
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