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Inside the Royal Harems of the Ottoman Empire
12 December 2025You can't move for people talking about the Roman Empire or the British Empire, but what about the Ottoman Empire?
It spanned a huge period...
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What Was The Ghost Dance?
11 December 2025Reunion with the dead. The return of lands, food supplies and buffalo. The disappearance of white settlers.
By the end of the 19th Century,...
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How America Invaded Canada
11 December 2025Dan narrates the remarkable story of how George Washington's newly established Continental Army tried to conquer Canada in the brutal winter of...
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Rise of King Herod
11 December 2025He’s the villain of the Nativity. An alleged killer of innocents, remembered as one of history’s great monsters. But the truth about Herod the...
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Elizabeth Boleyn: The Queen's Mother
11 December 2025What if the most powerful woman in Anne Boleyn’s story never spoke on the record? Elizabeth Boleyn steps out of the shadows in this revelatory...
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Does Every Family Hold A Dark Past?
11 December 2025Maddy and Anthony dig into their own family history in collaboration with Ancestry! They find stories from the darker side of the past in their...
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St. Francis & the First Nativity Play
9 December 2025Christmas would not be complete without a nativity play: Baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph, all watched over by an ox, a donkey and assorted bystanders...
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The Mother of All Tudors: Child Bride to Kingmaker
9 December 2025Ever heard of Margaret Beaufort? Probably not. But whilst her name has been overshadowed by those of her son, grandson and great-grandchildren,...
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The German Spies at Pearl Harbor
8 December 2025What would you do if you discovered that members of your family had spied for the Japanese at Pearl Harbor? When this happened to Christine Kuehn,...
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The Bombing of Guernica
8 December 2025The aerial bombardment that rained down on the Spanish city of Guernica in 1937 was one of the most shocking atrocities of the Spanish Civil War....
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Henry VIII At War
8 December 2025**Contains descriptions of war atrocities, including rape and infanticide**
In 1544, Henry VIII led the largest army ever raised by an...
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What Happened The Day Pompeii was Destroyed?
8 December 2025We all know the story of Pompeii: the Roman town reduced to ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted. Roughly two-thousand years later, archaeologists have...
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