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Bleeding Kansas: Start of the Civil War?
3 November 2025Was 'Bleeding Kansas' a dress rehearsal for the Civil War to come? During the 1850s pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers clashed in the newly...
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King vs. Emperor: The Battle of Pavia, 1525
3 November 2025500 years ago, the fields outside Pavia in Italy became the stage for one of the most dramatic and decisive battles of the Renaissance. Francis I...
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The Perfume Poisoner Who Killed 500 Men
3 November 2025Deep in Renaissance Rome, it is said that a woman called Giulia Tofana supplied poison to kill some 500 abusive men.
Is this the stuff of...
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Daily Life in the Roman Empire
3 November 2025Anno 117: Pax Romana presents a different side of the Roman Empire - a multicultural world where people from diverse backgrounds lived side by...
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The First Day of the Somme
3 November 2025In partnership with Findmypast, Dan narrates the extraordinary story of the bloodiest day of the First World War. The first day of the Somme saw...
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Fall of Babylon
2 November 2025The year is 539 BC. The greatest city of the ancient world has fallen. Babylon has opened it's gates to a new conqueror: the mighty Persian king...
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Introducing a chilling new podcast: TWISTED TALES WITH HEIDI WONG
1 November 2025Reality is the real horror.
Every Monday, poet and paranormal obsessive Heidi Wong unearths the chilling true stories behind the world’s...
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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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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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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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