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Who Was The Naughtiest Pope In History?
19 September 2025Sex, scandal and ... the Sacraments? Renaissance Rome wasn't for the faint hearted. And the Vatican? For some that was the source of the...
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Æthelstan: The Birth of England
19 September 2025Matt Lewis shifts the Gone Medieval spotlight from well-known Viking raiders and celebrated Anglo-Saxon kings to consider Æthelstan, an often...
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Anne Boleyn: Myths vs Reality
18 September 2025The life of Anne Boleyn has intrigued audiences for centuries. Everyone knows something about her time as Queen of England, and of course, her...
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What Caused the Civil War? | John Brown's Raid
18 September 2025John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry helped cause the Civil War. His is a magnetic persona that's hard to take your eyes away from. But who were the...
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The Permian Extinction: When Life Nearly Died
18 September 2025It was the biggest mass extinction event in Earth’s history. 250 million years ago, a 252 million years ago, Earth faced its deadliest crisis....
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Day In The Life Of A Body Snatcher
18 September 2025Join Anthony and Maddy as they spend a day - or should that be night? - in the life of a 19th century body snatcher.
Find out which months...
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Vanity of Henry VIII with Kate Lister
17 September 2025With six wives, Henry VIII must have had something going for him, right? Was he handsome? Charming? Intelligent? Just plain powerful? In this...
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Emperor Augustus
16 September 2025Augustus has often been hailed as Rome’s greatest emperor - he ended civil war, built an empire and declared a new age of peace. But behind the...
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History's Worst F*ckboys: Emperor Nero
16 September 2025Where does Emperor Nero fit in the pantheon of history's worst f*ckboys?
Does he measure up against the likes of previous episodes on...
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The Real Eleanor of Aquitaine
16 September 2025Eleanor of Aquitaine was a queen who defied expectations, a duchess who outmanoeuvred kings, and a mother whose dynasty shaped the future of...
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The Origins of California
15 September 2025How did California become the Golden State? It's a story that includes conquistadors, missionaries, gold miners, railroad builders and tourists,...
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Charles V, Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor
15 September 2025In the second episode of our special Habsburg dynasty series, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is joined by renowned historian Professor Geoffrey...
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