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Jonestown: The Birth of Peoples Temple
5 May 2025On November 18th, 1978, over 900 people died at an American settlement in the jungle of Guyana called Jonestown. In this first of two episodes, we...
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49:31
The Elizabethans and Islam
5 May 2025Elizabeth I's excommunication by the Pope in 1570 marked the beginning of an extraordinary - and little-known - English alignment with Muslim...
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37:32
The Dark Side of Ancient Rome
5 May 2025As a lot of new listeners have joined us, and it's a bank holiday in the UK, we thought we'd re-run one of our earliest, goriest episodes. Trust...
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52:37
Victorian London In Assassin's Creed Syndicate
5 May 2025Historians Review & Ubisoft Developer Interview with Jeffrey Yohalem
For the past few weeks, Matt Lewis has investigated the history...
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How did Andrew Jackson Change the U.S. Presidency?
4 May 2025A hero to some, and a villain to others, the seventh president of the United States was a populist firebrand who reshaped America and left a...
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The Fall of Rome: Origins
4 May 2025The Roman Empire, once an ancient powerhouse, experienced a dramatic fall from its golden age to eventual collapse.
Tristan Hughes and...
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57:23
Magna Carta 1225
2 May 2025What's the true story behind the Magna Carta, and how did a 17-year-old King Henry III shape a document that impacted the course of...
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What Made You Ugly In Ancient Rome?
2 May 2025What was a Roman skincare routine like? Why did the beard make a comeback under Emperor Hadrian? And what did it mean to be ugly in this...
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30:54
Germany After Hitler
1 May 202580 years ago, as the war in Europe drew to a close, the world began to come to terms with the horrors of the Third Reich. This is the story of the...
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57:43
Prehistoric Ireland: Newgrange
1 May 2025An astonishing ancient tomb is Ireland's most famous prehistoric monument; Newgrange. Tristan Hughes is joined by Dr Muiris O’Sullivan, an...
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The Dark Side of Sir Francis Drake
1 May 2025For centuries, Sir Francis Drake has been celebrated as a national hero - the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe. But behind the Drake...
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The Fall of Richard Nixon
1 May 2025Who was the real Richard Nixon? There are sides to him that get overlooked, like that he had a deeper understanding of foreign affairs than any...
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