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Manhattan’s Most Notorious Couple
24 August 2026Who were the scandalous, defiant couple on the margins of Dutch society who became part of the founding story of New York?
Professor...
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The Brutal Murder of Catherine Howard
24 August 2026Today we're delving back into the After Dark vaults to revisit our classic episode on the death of the short-lived Tudor queen.
In 1540...
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Terror Birds
23 August 2026What kind of predator needs no teeth to terrify its prey? The terror birds were enormous flightless hunters that ruled South America for millions...
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Edgar Ætheling: The King Who Never Was
21 August 2026What if you were proclaimed King of England but never sat on the throne? In 1066, Edgar Ætheling possessed the strongest bloodline claim to the...
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History's Deadliest Women: The Evil Stepmother
21 August 2026In 1909, the third and final woman hanged in Western Australia was executed. She had murdered three of her step children.
What drove Martha...
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Athens vs Sparta: The War That Changed History
21 August 2026The unforeseen consequences of this war led to the first scientific history book, the birth of philosophy. and the rise of Alexander the Great....
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18th Century France's Most Outrageous Spy
20 August 2026The Chevalier d’Éon was one of France’s most daring spies... until they began making headlines for all the wrong reasons.
Armed with...
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The Fire That Changed New York
20 August 2026On March 5 1911, 146 people died in a fire that lasted just 18 minutes. This event was to change the history of New York, and has an ongoing...
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Was Henry VIII England's Most Evil King?
20 August 2026This is the turbulent reign of that infamous Tudor monarch, Henry VIII. His spectacularly complicated love life, break with Rome, political...
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The Maya Ballgame
20 August 2026A rubber ball. A stone court. And a sport where the stakes could be life and death.
For more than 2,000 years, Mesoamerican peoples played a...
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James V: Scotland's Ambitious Renaissance King
20 August 2026Was James V of Scotland a beleaguered child king or a brilliant Renaissance ruler who mastered the performance of power?
Crowned before his...
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Great Buildings of the Middle Ages
18 August 2026How did medieval builders create monuments that still leave us awestruck? How were vast cathedrals, temples and cities constructed and...
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