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History Extra podcast

History Extra podcast

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The History Extra podcast brings you gripping stories from the past and fascinating historical conversations with the world's leading historical experts.     Produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine, History Extra is a free history podcast, with episodes released six times a week. Subscribe now for the real stories behind your favourite films, TV shows and period dramas, as well as compelling insights into lesser-known aspects of the past.    We delve into global history stories spanning the ancient world right up to the modern day. You’ll hear deep dives into the lives of famous historical figures like Cleopatra, Anne Boleyn and Winston Churchill, and explorations of intriguing events from the past, such as the Salem witch trials, the battle of Waterloo and D-Day.    Expect fresh takes on history, helping you get to grips with the latest research, as we explore everything from ancient Roman archaeology and Viking mythology to Renaissance royals and Tudor kings and queens.    Our episodes touch on a wide range of historical eras – from the Normans and Saxons to the Stuarts, Victorians and the Regency period. We cover the most popular historical subjects, from the medieval world to the Second World War, but you’ll also hear conversations on lesser-known parts of our past, including black history and women’s history.    Looking at the history behind today’s headlines, we consider the forces that have shaped today’s world, from the imposing empires that dominated continents, to the revolutions that brought them crashing down. We also examine the impact of conflict across the centuries, from the crusades of the Middle Ages and the battles of the ancient Egyptians to World War One, World War Two and the Cold War.     Plus, we uncover the real history behind myths, legends and conspiracy theories, from  the medieval murder mystery of the Princes in the Tower, to the assassination of JFK.     Featuring interviews with notable historians including Mary Beard, Tracy Borman, James Holland and Dan Jones, we cover a range of social, political and military history, with the aim to start conversations about some of the most fascinating areas of the past.  Unlock full access to HistoryExtra.com for 6 months for just 99p https://www.historyextra.com/join/

Podcasts

Aztec myths

Published: April 23, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 53 seconds

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David Lloyd George: life of the week

Published: April 22, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 50 seconds

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Graffiti's golden age: radicalism & romance in the 18th century

Published: April 21, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 27 seconds

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Highwaymen: everything you wanted to know

Published: April 20, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds

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An African perspective on the history of Africa

Published: April 18, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 42 seconds

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WW2's greatest battles | 1. Battle of Britain

Published: April 17, 2024, 11:10 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 9 seconds

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WW2's greatest battles | Trailer

Published: April 17, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 40 seconds

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How Kissinger transformed the Cold War

Published: April 16, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 13 seconds

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Lord Byron: life of the week

Published: April 15, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 32 seconds

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Horrible Histories: 15 years of death, poo and talking rats

Published: April 14, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 1 second

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Medieval medicine: everything you wanted to know

Published: April 13, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 30 seconds

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Death & hubris in west Africa: how two British expeditions met with disaster

Published: April 11, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 41 seconds

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Conspiracy Revisited: The JFK assassination Oswalds second murder

Published: April 10, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes

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Clotilda: the last slave ship to America

Published: April 9, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 6 seconds

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History behind the headlines: the Bengal famine

Published: April 8, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 15 seconds

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Spying in the Troubles: the murky world of double agents in Northern Ireland

Published: April 7, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 33 seconds

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Welsh mythology: everything you wanted to know

Published: April 6, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 31 seconds

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Tying the knot: 500 years of wedded bliss and marital misery

Published: April 4, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 22 seconds

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Conspiracy Revisited: The JFK assassination 95 per cent certain?

Published: April 3, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 1 second

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The British empire's divisive legacy

Published: April 2, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 43 seconds

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Saladin: life of the week

Published: April 1, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 13 seconds

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Back in the USSR: the Soviet Sixties

Published: March 31, 2024, 11 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 50 seconds

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Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: everything you wanted to know

Published: March 31, 2024, midnight
Duration: 43 minutes 18 seconds

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Dinosaurs: a Victorian obsession

Published: March 29, 2024, midnight
Duration: 40 minutes 54 seconds

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Tiger Tamer | 6. battling against Bovril

Published: March 28, 2024, midnight
Duration: 34 minutes 39 seconds

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How was Elizabeth I shaped by her childhood?

Published: March 27, 2024, midnight
Duration: 28 minutes 3 seconds

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Joan of Arc: life of the week

Published: March 26, 2024, midnight
Duration: 54 minutes 34 seconds

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Leftovers: how our ancestors battled food waste

Published: March 25, 2024, midnight
Duration: 29 minutes 57 seconds

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WW1's eastern front: everything you wanted to know

Published: March 24, 2024, midnight
Duration: 41 minutes 17 seconds

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Eric 'Winkle' Brown: Britain's most extraordinary pilot

Published: March 22, 2024, midnight
Duration: 33 minutes 1 second

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Tiger Tamer | 5. crazy about wheelbarrows

Published: March 21, 2024, midnight
Duration: 28 minutes 37 seconds

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Will the real Jesus please stand up?

Published: March 20, 2024, midnight
Duration: 27 minutes 59 seconds

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Mary Wollstonecraft: life of the week

Published: March 19, 2024, midnight
Duration: 41 minutes 53 seconds

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An obscenity trial that shocked Victorian Britain

Published: March 18, 2024, midnight
Duration: 38 minutes 45 seconds

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The Capetians: everything you wanted to know

Published: March 17, 2024, midnight
Duration: 55 minutes 46 seconds

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Lothar II vs Theutberga: a marriage scandal that shook the ninth century

Published: March 15, 2024, midnight
Duration: 35 minutes 22 seconds

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Tiger Tamer | 4. celebrity pedestrian

Published: March 14, 2024, midnight
Duration: 37 minutes 40 seconds

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A political earthquake: Britain's first Labour government

Published: March 13, 2024, midnight
Duration: 34 minutes 21 seconds

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James VI and I: life of the week

Published: March 12, 2024, midnight
Duration: 47 minutes 54 seconds

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From Russia to Texas: the search for a Jewish homeland

Published: March 11, 2024, midnight
Duration: 38 minutes 52 seconds

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British Redcoats: everything you wanted to know

Published: March 10, 2024, midnight
Duration: 35 minutes 18 seconds

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The West's attempt to crush Bolshevik Russia

Published: March 8, 2024, midnight
Duration: 38 minutes 58 seconds

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Tiger Tamer | 3. would you let a tiger lick your face?

Published: March 7, 2024, midnight
Duration: 36 minutes 24 seconds

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Mary & George: the real history behind the new drama

Published: March 6, 2024, midnight
Duration: 37 minutes 53 seconds

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History Behind the Headlines: ageing politicians & new names for the London Overground

Published: March 5, 2024, midnight
Duration: 40 minutes 29 seconds

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The man who ran Auschwitz: the real story of The Zone of Interest

Published: March 4, 2024, midnight
Duration: 39 minutes 39 seconds

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Alcatraz: everything you wanted to know

Published: March 3, 2024, midnight
Duration: 42 minutes 20 seconds

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Plague, leprosy & murder: unlocking the secrets of medieval bones

Published: March 1, 2024, midnight
Duration: 39 minutes 52 seconds

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Tiger Tamer | 2. sail, steam & stormy seas

Published: Feb. 29, 2024, midnight
Duration: 31 minutes 42 seconds

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The EU: from Maastricht to Brexit

Published: Feb. 28, 2024, midnight
Duration: 36 minutes 32 seconds

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Rudyard Kipling: life of the week

Published: Feb. 27, 2024, midnight
Duration: 35 minutes 37 seconds

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Winthrop Bell: a Canadian spy who predicted Nazi horrors

Published: Feb. 26, 2024, midnight
Duration: 40 minutes 42 seconds

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Arts & Crafts movement: everything you wanted to know

Published: Feb. 25, 2024, midnight
Duration: 42 minutes 34 seconds

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Stonewall: the 1969 fight for gay rights

Published: Feb. 24, 2024, midnight
Duration: 39 minutes 55 seconds

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The Chinese migrants chasing an American dream

Published: Feb. 23, 2024, midnight
Duration: 35 minutes 32 seconds

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Tiger Tamer | 1. the life of a dozen men

Published: Feb. 22, 2024, midnight
Duration: 26 minutes 33 seconds

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The Tiger Tamer who went to sea | Trailer

Published: Feb. 22, 2024, midnight
Duration: 1 minute 19 seconds

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The Britons who rebuilt postwar Germany

Published: Feb. 21, 2024, midnight
Duration: 34 minutes 16 seconds

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Christopher Columbus: life of the week

Published: Feb. 20, 2024, midnight
Duration: 43 minutes 25 seconds

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Slavic Myths: vampires werewolves and cabbages

Published: Feb. 19, 2024, midnight
Duration: 37 minutes 24 seconds

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The Roman army: everything you wanted to know

Published: Feb. 18, 2024, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 9 seconds

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Chanel: glamour and controversy on the Riviera

Published: Feb. 17, 2024, midnight
Duration: 43 minutes 21 seconds

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Victorian death rituals

Published: Feb. 16, 2024, midnight
Duration: 42 minutes 26 seconds

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Conspiracy | 5. Legends of the Knights Templar

Published: Feb. 15, 2024, midnight
Duration: 39 minutes 15 seconds

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Happily ever after? Love and marriage in Austen's era

Published: Feb. 14, 2024, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 54 seconds

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History Behind the Headlines: the Post Office, US elections and Alexander the Great

Published: Feb. 13, 2024, midnight
Duration: 37 minutes 10 seconds

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Drag: a British history

Published: Feb. 12, 2024, midnight
Duration: 37 minutes 59 seconds

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Medieval Ireland: everything you wanted to know

Published: Feb. 11, 2024, midnight
Duration: 59 minutes 12 seconds

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Peking to Paris: the worlds first great motor race

Published: Feb. 9, 2024, midnight
Duration: 32 minutes 20 seconds

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Conspiracy | 4. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Published: Feb. 8, 2024, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 10 seconds

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Love: a weird & wonderful history

Published: Feb. 7, 2024, midnight
Duration: 26 minutes 17 seconds

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Life of the week: the Duke of Wellington

Published: Feb. 6, 2024, midnight
Duration: 56 minutes 12 seconds

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Ploughman's for the people: a culinary history of Britain

Published: Feb. 5, 2024, midnight
Duration: 27 minutes 21 seconds

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Chivalry: everything you wanted to know

Published: Feb. 4, 2024, midnight
Duration: 38 minutes 48 seconds

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Alexandria: the first modern city

Published: Feb. 2, 2024, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 27 seconds

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Conspiracy | 3. Who killed JFK?

Published: Feb. 1, 2024, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 37 seconds

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Masters of the Air: the real history behind the new show.

Published: Jan. 31, 2024, midnight
Duration: 45 minutes 14 seconds

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Life of the week: Spartacus

Published: Jan. 30, 2024, midnight
Duration: 50 minutes 49 seconds

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The West's enduring fascination with Asia

Published: Jan. 29, 2024, midnight
Duration: 50 minutes 2 seconds

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Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: everything you wanted to know

Published: Jan. 28, 2024, midnight
Duration: 42 minutes 59 seconds

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Nicholas Winton: the 'British Schindler'

Published: Jan. 26, 2024, midnight
Duration: 33 minutes 30 seconds

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Conspiracy | 2. Was Pearl Harbor an inside job?

Published: Jan. 25, 2024, midnight
Duration: 36 minutes 29 seconds

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Ireland's tangled relationship with empire

Published: Jan. 24, 2024, midnight
Duration: 34 minutes 51 seconds

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Life of the Week: Harold Godwinson (Harold II)

Published: Jan. 23, 2024, midnight
Duration: 31 minutes 9 seconds

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Britain's long love affair with sport

Published: Jan. 22, 2024, midnight
Duration: 31 minutes 2 seconds

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The Silk Road: everything you wanted to know

Published: Jan. 21, 2024, midnight
Duration: 32 minutes 14 seconds

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The Renaissance: an explosion of creativity

Published: Jan. 19, 2024, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 11 seconds

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Conspiracy | 1. Was Elizabeth I a man?

Published: Jan. 18, 2024, 12:10 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 21 seconds

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Conspiracy | Series 2 Trailer

Published: Jan. 18, 2024, midnight
Duration: 1 minute 41 seconds

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From the Mongols to the Huns: the nomads who dominated Eurasia

Published: Jan. 17, 2024, midnight
Duration: 33 minutes 53 seconds

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Life of the Week: Frederick Douglass

Published: Jan. 16, 2024, midnight
Duration: 34 minutes 29 seconds

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The hidden history of women in intelligence

Published: Jan. 15, 2024, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 28 seconds

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The Bloomsbury Group: everything you wanted to know

Published: Jan. 14, 2024, midnight
Duration: 35 minutes 47 seconds

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'Madness' and the supernatural

Published: Jan. 12, 2024, midnight
Duration: 31 minutes 3 seconds

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Boston Tea Party | 5. A complex legacy

Published: Jan. 11, 2024, midnight
Duration: 32 minutes 15 seconds

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Why were the Romantics obsessed with Mount Vesuvius?

Published: Jan. 10, 2024, midnight
Duration: 28 minutes 32 seconds

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Life of the Week: Stalin

Published: Jan. 9, 2024, midnight
Duration: 46 minutes 26 seconds

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James Longstreet: Confederate Judas

Published: Jan. 8, 2024, midnight
Duration: 42 minutes 12 seconds

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Medieval popes: everything you wanted to know

Published: Jan. 7, 2024, midnight
Duration: 53 minutes 20 seconds

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A history of song: from Schumann to Sting

Published: Jan. 5, 2024, midnight
Duration: 31 minutes 48 seconds

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Boston Tea Party | 4. The crackdown

Published: Jan. 4, 2024, midnight
Duration: 35 minutes 3 seconds

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Aztec warfare

Published: Jan. 3, 2024, midnight
Duration: 43 minutes 39 seconds

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History Behind the Headlines: Elections, panda diplomacy and the word of the year

Published: Jan. 2, 2024, midnight
Duration: 43 minutes 57 seconds

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How spies shaped the modern world

Published: Jan. 1, 2024, midnight
Duration: 23 minutes 2 seconds

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The Habsburgs: everything you wanted to know

Published: Dec. 31, 2023, midnight
Duration: 44 minutes 52 seconds

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The medieval Welsh Marches: identity on the frontier

Published: Dec. 29, 2023, midnight
Duration: 34 minutes 50 seconds

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Boston Tea Party | 3. The destruction of the tea

Published: Dec. 28, 2023, midnight
Duration: 33 minutes 24 seconds

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Sherlock Holmes: the real history that inspired the detective stories

Published: Dec. 27, 2023, midnight
Duration: 33 minutes 38 seconds

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Life of the week: Queen Victoria

Published: Dec. 26, 2023, midnight
Duration: 34 minutes 49 seconds

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Merry Christmas from the HistoryExtra podcast

Published: Dec. 25, 2023, midnight
Duration: 1 minute 20 seconds

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Druids: everything you wanted to know

Published: Dec. 24, 2023, midnight
Duration: 49 minutes

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Bannockburn: Robert the Bruces greatest victory

Published: Dec. 22, 2023, midnight
Duration: 41 minutes 11 seconds

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Boston Tea Party | 2. The Sons of Liberty

Published: Dec. 21, 2023, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 53 seconds

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Amazing Grace: a story of salvation and slavery

Published: Dec. 20, 2023, midnight
Duration: 34 minutes 2 seconds

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Life of the week: Amelia Earhart

Published: Dec. 19, 2023, midnight
Duration: 34 minutes 24 seconds

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Nazi Germany: the myth of the innocent bystander

Published: Dec. 18, 2023, midnight
Duration: 37 minutes 18 seconds

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1970s Britain: everything you wanted to know

Published: Dec. 17, 2023, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 43 seconds

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Caesar | 1. Beware the Ides of March

Published: Dec. 16, 2023, midnight
Duration: 19 minutes 7 seconds

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Caesar | 6. The evil that men do

Published: Dec. 16, 2023, midnight
Duration: 31 minutes 20 seconds

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Caesar | 2. Was this ambition?

Published: Dec. 16, 2023, midnight
Duration: 22 minutes 15 seconds

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Caesar | 4. Honourable men

Published: Dec. 16, 2023, midnight
Duration: 20 minutes 45 seconds

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Caesar | 5. The dogs of war

Published: Dec. 16, 2023, midnight
Duration: 28 minutes 8 seconds

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Caesar | 3. Master of his fate

Published: Dec. 16, 2023, midnight
Duration: 26 minutes 32 seconds

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Netflix's The Crown: history and storytelling

Published: Dec. 15, 2023, midnight
Duration: 31 minutes 50 seconds

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Boston Tea Party | 1. Tea and taxes

Published: Dec. 14, 2023, midnight
Duration: 28 minutes 14 seconds

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Boston Tea Party: Igniting a revolution | Trailer

Published: Dec. 14, 2023, midnight
Duration: 2 minutes 2 seconds

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Georgian grand houses: the forgotten women who built them

Published: Dec. 13, 2023, midnight
Duration: 28 minutes 10 seconds

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Introducing Life of the Week

Published: Dec. 12, 2023, midnight
Duration: 51 seconds

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Life of the Week: Mansa Musa

Published: Dec. 12, 2023, midnight
Duration: 31 minutes 34 seconds

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Victoria's armpit and 'giant' bones: body parts that changed history

Published: Dec. 11, 2023, midnight
Duration: 22 minutes 38 seconds

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The American Gilded Age: everything you wanted to know

Published: Dec. 10, 2023, midnight
Duration: 53 minutes 47 seconds

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Books and war: from James Bond to leaflet bombing

Published: Dec. 8, 2023, midnight
Duration: 42 minutes 25 seconds

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Shakespeare: Past Master | 4. Hamlet

Published: Dec. 7, 2023, midnight
Duration: 28 minutes 45 seconds

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Medieval manners: social etiquette in the Middle Ages

Published: Dec. 6, 2023, midnight
Duration: 33 minutes 53 seconds

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Marshal Petain: Vichy France in the dock

Published: Dec. 4, 2023, midnight
Duration: 49 minutes 41 seconds

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1950s Britain: everything you wanted to know

Published: Dec. 3, 2023, midnight
Duration: 41 minutes 7 seconds

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The dangerous road to the Bastille

Published: Dec. 1, 2023, midnight
Duration: 45 minutes 34 seconds

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Shakespeare: Past Master | 3. Julius Caesar

Published: Nov. 30, 2023, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 43 seconds

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Du Fu: China's greatest poet

Published: Nov. 29, 2023, midnight
Duration: 27 minutes 54 seconds

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Cities that turbocharged art history

Published: Nov. 27, 2023, midnight
Duration: 31 minutes 28 seconds

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Astronomy history: everything you wanted to know

Published: Nov. 26, 2023, midnight
Duration: 43 minutes 20 seconds

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The dark side of Dickens

Published: Nov. 24, 2023, midnight
Duration: 38 minutes 5 seconds

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Shakespeare: Past Master | 2. Romeo and Juliet

Published: Nov. 23, 2023, midnight
Duration: 25 minutes 2 seconds

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Thanksgiving: everything you wanted to know

Published: Nov. 23, 2023, midnight
Duration: 22 minutes 17 seconds

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The dangers of medieval travel

Published: Nov. 22, 2023, midnight
Duration: 40 minutes 23 seconds

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The Princes in the Tower: has the mystery been solved?

Published: Nov. 20, 2023, midnight
Duration: 49 minutes 17 seconds

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The Pre-Raphaelites: everything you wanted to know

Published: Nov. 19, 2023, midnight
Duration: 47 minutes 51 seconds

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Resistance in the Second World War

Published: Nov. 17, 2023, midnight
Duration: 27 minutes 26 seconds

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Shakespeare: Past Master | 1. Henry V

Published: Nov. 16, 2023, midnight
Duration: 31 minutes 14 seconds

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Shakespeare Trailer

Published: Nov. 16, 2023, midnight
Duration: 39 seconds

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George Orwells forgotten wife

Published: Nov. 15, 2023, midnight
Duration: 28 minutes 10 seconds

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Magic books: a global history

Published: Nov. 13, 2023, midnight
Duration: 26 minutes 3 seconds

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Norse myths: everything you wanted to know

Published: Nov. 12, 2023, midnight
Duration: 58 minutes 21 seconds

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Medieval Stalingrad: The siege of Calais

Published: Nov. 10, 2023, midnight
Duration: 32 minutes 4 seconds

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The First Crusade | 5. The end or the beginning?

Published: Nov. 9, 2023, midnight
Duration: 48 minutes 19 seconds

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The Munich Putsch: Hitlers bungled revolution

Published: Nov. 8, 2023, midnight
Duration: 28 minutes 58 seconds

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Womens history: from 1066 to Margaret Thatcher

Published: Nov. 6, 2023, midnight
Duration: 38 minutes 3 seconds

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Ancient Egyptian pyramids: everything you wanted to know

Published: Nov. 5, 2023, midnight
Duration: 56 minutes 48 seconds

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Scotlands last witch

Published: Nov. 3, 2023, midnight
Duration: 42 minutes 46 seconds

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The First Crusade | 4. Besieged

Published: Nov. 2, 2023, midnight
Duration: 41 minutes 50 seconds

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Fighting racism in postwar Britain

Published: Nov. 1, 2023, midnight
Duration: 38 minutes 28 seconds

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Horror films: a chilling cultural history

Published: Oct. 30, 2023, midnight
Duration: 50 minutes 25 seconds

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The history of Jamaica: everything you wanted to know

Published: Oct. 28, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 54 seconds

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Killers of the Flower Moon: The real history

Published: Oct. 26, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 26 seconds

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The First Crusade | 3. Crossing into the unknown

Published: Oct. 25, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 55 seconds

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Disease killers: the black nurses who conquered TB

Published: Oct. 24, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 14 seconds

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Who moulded Winston Churchill?

Published: Oct. 22, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 26 seconds

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The Second Barons War: everything you wanted to know

Published: Oct. 21, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 51 seconds

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Renaissance eugenics

Published: Oct. 19, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 4 seconds

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The First Crusade | 2. On the road

Published: Oct. 18, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 5 seconds

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1960s Britain: smashing the status quo?

Published: Oct. 17, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 55 seconds

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Life of the week Trailer

Published: Oct. 16, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 40 seconds

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Disney at 100

Published: Oct. 15, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 29 seconds

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Weimar Germany: everything you wanted to know

Published: Oct. 14, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 34 seconds

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Slave traders: the men who built a brutal empire

Published: Oct. 12, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 6 seconds

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The First Crusade | 1. The call to arms

Published: Oct. 11, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 39 seconds

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The First Crusade Trailer

Published: Oct. 11, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 6 seconds

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Re-examining women in the Roman empire

Published: Oct. 10, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 50 seconds

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History Behind the Headlines Trailer

Published: Oct. 9, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 41 seconds

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Is black history still being overlooked?

Published: Oct. 8, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 5 seconds

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Cat history: everything you wanted to know

Published: Oct. 7, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 39 seconds

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The Huxleys: how one family shaped our view of nature

Published: Oct. 5, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 30 seconds

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Great Reputations: Gandhi

Published: Oct. 4, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 13 seconds

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The Cultural Revolution: a Chinese catastrophe

Published: Oct. 3, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 18 seconds

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The brutal WW2 battle for Italy

Published: Oct. 2, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 28 seconds

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David Mitchell on a new history of Englands monarchy

Published: Oct. 1, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 29 seconds

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Archaeologys golden age: everything you wanted to know

Published: Sept. 30, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 2 seconds

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One day in the British empire

Published: Sept. 28, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes

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Great Reputations: Emmeline Pankhurst

Published: Sept. 27, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 25 seconds

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Radio Times: a century of British broadcasting

Published: Sept. 26, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 15 seconds

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How to live like a Roman emperor

Published: Sept. 25, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 22 seconds

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How has fear shaped history?

Published: Sept. 24, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 18 seconds

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The Battle of Britain: everything you wanted to know

Published: Sept. 23, 2023, 11 p.m.
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Published: Oct. 31, 2021, 12:03 p.m.
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Published: March 21, 2021, noon
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Published: March 20, 2021, noon
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Published: March 14, 2021, noon
Duration: 48 minutes 14 seconds

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Published: March 13, 2021, noon
Duration: 55 minutes 16 seconds

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Published: March 12, 2021, noon
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Published: March 7, 2021, noon
Duration: 56 minutes 58 seconds

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Published: March 5, 2021, noon
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Published: March 4, 2021, noon
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Published: March 3, 2021, 11 a.m.
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Published: March 2, 2021, noon
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Published: March 1, 2021, noon
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Published: Feb. 28, 2021, noon
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Published: Feb. 27, 2021, midnight
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Published: Feb. 26, 2021, noon
Duration: 46 minutes 28 seconds

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Published: Feb. 25, 2021, noon
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Published: Feb. 24, 2021, noon
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Published: Feb. 23, 2021, noon
Duration: 47 minutes 56 seconds

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Published: Feb. 22, 2021, noon
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Published: Feb. 21, 2021, noon
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Published: Feb. 20, 2021, noon
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Published: Feb. 19, 2021, noon
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Published: Feb. 18, 2021, noon
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Published: Feb. 17, 2021, noon
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Published: Feb. 16, 2021, noon
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Published: Feb. 15, 2021, noon
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Published: Feb. 14, 2021, noon
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Published: Feb. 13, 2021, noon
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Published: Feb. 12, 2021, noon
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Published: Feb. 11, 2021, 11 a.m.
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Published: Feb. 10, 2021, noon
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Published: Feb. 9, 2021, noon
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Published: Feb. 5, 2021, noon
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Published: Feb. 4, 2021, noon
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Published: Jan. 31, 2021, noon
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Published: Jan. 30, 2021, noon
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Published: Jan. 29, 2021, noon
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Published: Jan. 28, 2021, noon
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Published: Jan. 27, 2021, noon
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Published: Jan. 26, 2021, noon
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Published: Jan. 25, 2021, noon
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Published: Jan. 24, 2021, noon
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Published: Jan. 23, 2021, noon
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Published: Jan. 23, 2021, noon
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Published: Jan. 22, 2021, noon
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Published: Jan. 21, 2021, noon
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Published: Jan. 19, 2021, noon
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Published: Jan. 18, 2021, noon
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Published: Jan. 17, 2021, noon
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Published: Jan. 15, 2021, noon
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Published: Jan. 11, 2021, noon
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Published: Jan. 8, 2021, 6 a.m.
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Published: Jan. 7, 2021, noon
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Published: Jan. 6, 2021, noon
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Published: Jan. 5, 2021, noon
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Published: Jan. 4, 2021, noon
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Published: Jan. 3, 2021, noon
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Published: Jan. 2, 2021, noon
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Published: Jan. 1, 2021, noon
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Published: Dec. 31, 2020, noon
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Published: Dec. 30, 2020, noon
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Published: Dec. 29, 2020, noon
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Published: Dec. 28, 2020, noon
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Published: Dec. 27, 2020, noon
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Published: Dec. 24, 2020, noon
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Published: Dec. 22, 2020, noon
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Published: Dec. 20, 2020, noon
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Published: Dec. 18, 2020, noon
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Published: Dec. 14, 2020, noon
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Published: Dec. 13, 2020, noon
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Published: Dec. 12, 2020, noon
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Published: Dec. 11, 2020, noon
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Published: Dec. 10, 2020, noon
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Published: Dec. 9, 2020, noon
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Published: Dec. 7, 2020, noon
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Published: Dec. 3, 2020, noon
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Published: Dec. 2, 2020, noon
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Published: Nov. 29, 2020, noon
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Published: Nov. 28, 2020, noon
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Published: Nov. 27, 2020, noon
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Published: Nov. 26, 2020, noon
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Published: Nov. 25, 2020, noon
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Published: Nov. 23, 2020, noon
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Published: Nov. 22, 2020, noon
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Published: Nov. 20, 2020, noon
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Published: Nov. 19, 2020, noon
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Published: Nov. 18, 2020, noon
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Published: Nov. 15, 2020, noon
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Published: Nov. 14, 2020, noon
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Published: Nov. 13, 2020, noon
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Published: Nov. 11, 2020, noon
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Published: Nov. 9, 2020, noon
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Published: Nov. 8, 2020, noon
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Published: Nov. 7, 2020, noon
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Published: Nov. 6, 2020, noon
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Published: Nov. 5, 2020, noon
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Published: Nov. 1, 2020, noon
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Published: Oct. 31, 2020, noon
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Published: Oct. 30, 2020, noon
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Published: Oct. 29, 2020, noon
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Published: Oct. 28, 2020, noon
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Published: Oct. 27, 2020, noon
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Published: Oct. 26, 2020, noon
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Published: Oct. 25, 2020, noon
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Published: Oct. 23, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Oct. 21, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Oct. 20, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Oct. 19, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Oct. 18, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Oct. 17, 2020, 11 a.m.
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An Atlantic slave war

Published: Oct. 16, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Oct. 15, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Oct. 14, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Oct. 13, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Oct. 12, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Oct. 7, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Oct. 6, 2020, 11 a.m.
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The rise and fall of the Sikh empire

Published: Oct. 5, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the history of Japan, but were afraid to ask

Published: Oct. 4, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944

Published: Oct. 3, 2020, 11 a.m.
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A 1930s ghost hunt

Published: Oct. 2, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Medieval eels and Englishness

Published: Sept. 30, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Ken Folletts Anglo-Saxon adventure

Published: Sept. 28, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Sept. 27, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Simon de Montfort and Englands First Revolution

Published: Sept. 26, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Sept. 25, 2020, 11 a.m.
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The Mayflower

Published: Sept. 24, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Sept. 23, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Sept. 22, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Sept. 21, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Sept. 20, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Ghosts of Viking London

Published: Sept. 19, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Ben Macintyre on Agent Sonya the greatest female spy in history

Published: Sept. 18, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Prisoners of the Japanese

Published: Sept. 16, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Medieval rebellions

Published: Sept. 14, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Sept. 13, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Sept. 12, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Sept. 11, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Sept. 9, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Sept. 7, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Sept. 6, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Sept. 5, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Sept. 4, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Sept. 3, 2020, 11:35 a.m.
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Ernest Bevin: working-class warrior

Published: Sept. 2, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Aug. 31, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Aug. 30, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Crusaders: An Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands

Published: Aug. 29, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Aug. 28, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Edward the Confessor

Published: Aug. 26, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Aug. 24, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Aug. 23, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Aug. 22, 2020, 11 a.m.
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The story of the Freemasons

Published: Aug. 21, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Aug. 19, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Aug. 17, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Spanish Civil War, but were afraid to ask

Published: Aug. 16, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Aug. 15, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Victory in the east

Published: Aug. 14, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Aug. 12, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Aug. 10, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Aug. 9, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Aug. 8, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Aug. 7, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Aug. 5, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Published: Aug. 3, 2020, 11 a.m.
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Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI

Published: Aug. 1, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 41 seconds

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The Princes in the Tower: Historys Greatest Mysteries

Published: July 31, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 35 seconds

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Stonehenge: Historys Greatest Mysteries

Published: July 30, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 49 seconds

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The fate of Jesuss body: Historys Greatest Mysteries

Published: July 29, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 37 seconds

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The lost colony of Roanoke: Historys Greatest Mysteries

Published: July 28, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 31 seconds

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The Voynich Manuscript: Historys Greatest Mysteries

Published: July 27, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 11 seconds

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Everything you ever wanted to know about Ancient Greece, but were afraid to ask (part 1)

Published: July 26, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 29 seconds

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Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Survivor

Published: July 25, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 12 seconds

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Unburied treasures

Published: July 24, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 40 seconds

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African American abolitionists in Britain

Published: July 22, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 11 seconds

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A history of magic

Published: July 20, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 33 seconds

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Everything you ever wanted to know about medieval queens, but were afraid to ask

Published: July 19, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 1 second

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At home with the medieval aristocracy

Published: July 18, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 21 seconds

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Lionheart of stone: the medieval statue debate

Published: July 17, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 28 seconds

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The Abdication crisis

Published: July 15, 2020, 11:35 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 59 seconds

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Nero: Romes Antichrist?

Published: July 13, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 44 seconds

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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Cuban Missile Crisis, but were afraid to ask

Published: July 12, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 51 seconds

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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles

Published: July 11, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 37 seconds

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Museums and colonialism

Published: July 10, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 24 seconds

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David Abulafia on The Boundless Sea

Published: July 8, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Californias century of change

Published: July 6, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 28 seconds

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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Scottish Wars of Independence, but were afraid to ask

Published: July 5, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 12 seconds

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The Picts

Published: July 4, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 31 seconds

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Women and the Crusades

Published: July 3, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 1 second

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World War Two: the challenge of commemoration

Published: July 1, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 47 seconds

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A history of pandemics: from Spanish Flu to Covid-19

Published: June 29, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 23 seconds

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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Georgians, but were afraid to ask

Published: June 28, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 58 seconds

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William and Cnut: a tale of two conquerors

Published: June 27, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 26 seconds

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Amy Robsart: a Tudor tragedy

Published: June 26, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 1 second

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Britain and the Korean War

Published: June 24, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 39 seconds

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Working mothers

Published: June 22, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 13 seconds

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Everything you ever wanted to know about British battlefields, but were afraid to ask

Published: June 21, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 13 seconds

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Saturday lecture: Medieval love and marriage

Published: June 20, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 51 seconds

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The Lancaster

Published: June 19, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 49 seconds

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Henry III: inside the mind of a medieval king

Published: June 17, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 1 second

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Francis Drake: slave trader

Published: June 16, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 17 seconds

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Britain and the slave trade

Published: June 15, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 48 seconds

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The Field of the Cloth of Gold

Published: June 12, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 42 seconds

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The secret plot to kill Lincoln

Published: June 10, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 56 seconds

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The unexpected Tudors

Published: June 8, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 31 seconds

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Everything you ever wanted to know about Nazi Germany, but were afraid to ask

Published: June 7, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 49 seconds

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Saturday lecture: Medieval disease and medicine

Published: June 6, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 57 seconds

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The history of the Bible

Published: June 5, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 13 seconds

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A legendary pirate

Published: June 3, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 59 seconds

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The cosmopolitan Chaucer

Published: June 1, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 39 seconds

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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Civil War, but were afraid to ask

Published: May 31, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 48 seconds

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Saturday lecture: Medieval food

Published: May 30, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 45 seconds

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Indian soldiers at Dunkirk

Published: May 29, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 47 seconds

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Medieval prisoners of war

Published: May 27, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 30 seconds

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David Olusoga on A House Through Time

Published: May 25, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 45 seconds

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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Crusades, but were afraid to ask

Published: May 24, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 54 seconds

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Saturday lecture: Medieval crime and violence

Published: May 23, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 26 seconds

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Cooking for Churchill

Published: May 22, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 27 seconds

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Rutger Bregmans optimistic history of the world

Published: May 20, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 28 seconds

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Living on the edge in Victorian Britain

Published: May 18, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 27 seconds

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Everything you ever wanted to know about the English Reformation, but were afraid to ask

Published: May 17, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 21 seconds

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Surviving the Great Plague

Published: May 15, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 3 seconds

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Rethinking the Renaissance

Published: May 13, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 46 seconds

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The life and legend of Florence Nightingale

Published: May 11, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 9 seconds

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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Vikings, but were afraid to ask

Published: May 10, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 48 seconds

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Britain at War

Published: May 8, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 49 seconds

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The Northumbrians: from Bede to Geordie Shore

Published: May 6, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 29 seconds

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Medieval globetrotters

Published: May 4, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 10 seconds

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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Victorians, but were afraid to ask

Published: May 3, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 33 seconds

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The Corn Laws crisis

Published: May 1, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 6 seconds

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How the world made us

Published: April 29, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 13 seconds

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The unexpected Vikings

Published: April 27, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 49 seconds

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Everything you ever wanted to know about British prehistory, but were afraid to ask

Published: April 26, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 23 seconds

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A Nazi mystery

Published: April 24, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 30 seconds

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A new view of Africas past

Published: April 22, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 46 seconds

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Chanel and the Riviera

Published: April 20, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 35 seconds

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Everything you ever wanted to know about D-Day, but were afraid to ask

Published: April 19, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 7 seconds

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The scandalous Byrons

Published: April 17, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 56 seconds

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The mistresses of Charles II

Published: April 15, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 47 seconds

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The spies who inspired Bond

Published: April 13, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 43 seconds

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Everything you ever wanted to know about Roman Britain, but were afraid to ask

Published: April 12, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 27 seconds

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Apollo 13

Published: April 10, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 27 seconds

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The Black Death and social change

Published: April 8, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 33 seconds

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The genius of Artemisia

Published: April 6, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 2 seconds

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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Tudors, but were afraid to ask

Published: April 5, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes

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Viking women

Published: April 3, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 3 seconds

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Okinawa: the battle and the bomb

Published: April 1, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 31 seconds

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Women at war

Published: March 30, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 32 seconds

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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Normans, but were afraid to ask

Published: March 29, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 28 seconds

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A history of celebrity

Published: March 27, 2020, noon
Duration: 43 minutes 28 seconds

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Russias musical journeys

Published: March 25, 2020, noon
Duration: 31 minutes 10 seconds

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Blitz spirit

Published: March 23, 2020, noon
Duration: 50 minutes 10 seconds

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Shakespeare and America

Published: March 20, 2020, noon
Duration: 32 minutes 22 seconds

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News in the Middle Ages

Published: March 18, 2020, noon
Duration: 52 minutes 34 seconds

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Coronavirus: a historical perspective

Published: March 16, 2020, noon
Duration: 33 minutes 55 seconds

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Waless turbulent 20th century

Published: March 13, 2020, noon
Duration: 32 minutes 53 seconds

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Resistance in the British empire

Published: March 11, 2020, noon
Duration: 34 minutes 58 seconds

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Hadley Freeman on a 20th-century family history

Published: March 9, 2020, noon
Duration: 38 minutes 24 seconds

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Written in stone

Published: March 6, 2020, noon
Duration: 35 minutes 52 seconds

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Dictators explained

Published: March 4, 2020, noon
Duration: 42 minutes 37 seconds

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Food and war

Published: March 2, 2020, noon
Duration: 38 minutes 43 seconds

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Londons trailblazing women

Published: Feb. 28, 2020, noon
Duration: 36 minutes 46 seconds

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Secrets of Lindisfarne

Published: Feb. 26, 2020, noon
Duration: 40 minutes 58 seconds

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Medieval medicine

Published: Feb. 24, 2020, noon
Duration: 46 minutes 40 seconds

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Georgian terrorists: the Cato Street Conspiracy

Published: Feb. 21, 2020, noon
Duration: 38 minutes 54 seconds

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Burglary: a modern history

Published: Feb. 19, 2020, noon
Duration: 40 minutes 30 seconds

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The rise of Hitler

Published: Feb. 17, 2020, noon
Duration: 29 minutes 34 seconds

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Michael Wood on the Peterloo photograph

Published: Feb. 14, 2020, noon
Duration: 28 minutes 35 seconds

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The bombing of Dresden

Published: Feb. 12, 2020, noon
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 46 seconds

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Secrets of war leadership

Published: Feb. 10, 2020, noon
Duration: 41 minutes 57 seconds

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Confronting evils

Published: Feb. 7, 2020, noon
Duration: 40 minutes 43 seconds

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Marie Antoinette

Published: Feb. 5, 2020, noon
Duration: 34 minutes 21 seconds

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Mary Beard on the nude in western art

Published: Feb. 3, 2020, noon
Duration: 46 minutes 6 seconds

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The woman who gave birth to rabbits

Published: Jan. 31, 2020, noon
Duration: 42 minutes 25 seconds

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Indians in the trenches

Published: Jan. 29, 2020, noon
Duration: 42 minutes 8 seconds

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Fighting for the vote

Published: Jan. 27, 2020, noon
Duration: 51 minutes 41 seconds

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The Holocaust orphans

Published: Jan. 24, 2020, noon
Duration: 49 minutes 34 seconds

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Simon de Montforts medieval revolution

Published: Jan. 22, 2020, noon
Duration: 46 minutes 30 seconds

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The Windrush generation

Published: Jan. 20, 2020, noon
Duration: 47 minutes 38 seconds

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Puritans and the Mayflower

Published: Jan. 17, 2020, noon
Duration: 43 minutes 39 seconds

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The Auschwitz volunteer

Published: Jan. 15, 2020, noon
Duration: 40 minutes 53 seconds

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Medieval myths

Published: Jan. 13, 2020, noon
Duration: 43 minutes 47 seconds

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Confronting a dark past

Published: Jan. 9, 2020, noon
Duration: 36 minutes 11 seconds

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From Allies to enemies

Published: Jan. 6, 2020, noon
Duration: 45 minutes 3 seconds

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The long history of Brexit

Published: Jan. 2, 2020, noon
Duration: 42 minutes 54 seconds

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The filthy Middle Ages?

Published: Dec. 30, 2019, noon
Duration: 30 minutes 31 seconds

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A curious history of Christmas

Published: Dec. 26, 2019, noon
Duration: 30 minutes 11 seconds

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2019 Christmas history quiz

Published: Dec. 23, 2019, noon
Duration: 25 minutes 57 seconds

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The birth of the modern world

Published: Dec. 19, 2019, noon
Duration: 39 minutes 13 seconds

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Politics, Roman style

Published: Dec. 16, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 9 seconds

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: myth and reality

Published: Dec. 12, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 47 seconds

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World War Twos secret heroes

Published: Dec. 9, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 23 seconds

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Asians in 1980s Britain

Published: Dec. 5, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 26 seconds

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Secrets of the river

Published: Dec. 2, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 34 seconds

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The Mountbattens: success and scandal

Published: Nov. 28, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 6 seconds

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The teashop empire

Published: Nov. 25, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 24 seconds

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Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudors

Published: Nov. 21, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 16 seconds

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Maoism

Published: Nov. 18, 2019, noon
Duration: 32 minutes 58 seconds

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A history of the United States

Published: Nov. 14, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 39 seconds

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The King: Henry V on film

Published: Nov. 12, 2019, noon
Duration: 41 minutes 1 second

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The Pacific War on screen

Published: Nov. 11, 2019, 11 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 39 seconds

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The rise and fall of the Berlin Wall

Published: Nov. 7, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 17 seconds

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Treasures of Tutankhamun

Published: Nov. 4, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 43 seconds

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The Fortress: An epic battle of World War I

Published: Oct. 31, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 9 seconds

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The death of Kitchener: a World War One mystery

Published: Oct. 28, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 9 seconds

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Britain in the early 80s

Published: Oct. 24, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 35 seconds

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The House of York

Published: Oct. 21, 2019, 10 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 44 seconds

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Bonus Episode: Sequences with consequences

Published: Oct. 19, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 53 seconds

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Slave revolt

Published: Oct. 17, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 57 seconds

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Peter Hennessy on Britain in transition

Published: Oct. 14, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 43 seconds

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Secret listeners

Published: Oct. 10, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 34 seconds

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William Dalrymple on the East India Company

Published: Oct. 7, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 10 seconds

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Catherine the Great: fact and fiction

Published: Oct. 3, 2019, noon
Duration: 33 minutes 19 seconds

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Orlando Figes on the transformation of Europe

Published: Sept. 30, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes

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Fake news in World War Two

Published: Sept. 26, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 42 seconds

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The destruction of Pompeii

Published: Sept. 23, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 27 seconds

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Max Hastings on the Dambusters

Published: Sept. 19, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 7 seconds

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Suzannah Lipscomb on womens lives in Reformation France

Published: Sept. 16, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 3 seconds

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Tom Holland on Christianitys enduring legacy

Published: Sept. 12, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 33 seconds

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The Crusades, with Dan Jones

Published: Sept. 9, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 52 seconds

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Poland, 1939: World War Two begins

Published: Sept. 5, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 24 seconds

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Hitlers war with Anglo-America

Published: Sept. 2, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 1 second

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War trauma

Published: Aug. 29, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 29 seconds

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Chernobyl: the story of a tragedy

Published: Aug. 26, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 10 seconds

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The real Peaky Blinders

Published: Aug. 22, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 43 seconds

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The corner shop revolution

Published: Aug. 19, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 5 seconds

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Peterloo: the story of a massacre

Published: Aug. 15, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 15 seconds

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Britain's key archaeological discoveries

Published: Aug. 12, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 10 seconds

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Gordon Brown on Andrew Carnegie

Published: Aug. 10, 2019, 11 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 16 seconds

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Prisoner dilemmas

Published: Aug. 8, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 47 seconds

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Why black hair matters

Published: Aug. 5, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 7 seconds

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The Zinoviev Letter conspiracy

Published: Aug. 1, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 15 seconds

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Making jokes about Romans

Published: July 29, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 29 seconds

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Charlemagne: medieval empire builder

Published: July 25, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 34 seconds

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Stonewall and the fight for gay rights

Published: July 22, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 9 seconds

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The race to the moon

Published: July 18, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 17 seconds

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An Indian cricket team in imperial Britain

Published: July 15, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 6 seconds

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The battle of Trafalgar

Published: July 11, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 13 seconds

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King killers in America

Published: July 8, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 51 seconds

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AC Grayling on the history of philosophy

Published: July 4, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 59 seconds

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The problem with the Anglo-Saxons

Published: July 1, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 35 seconds

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Victorian freak shows

Published: June 27, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 44 seconds

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Appeasement and the road to World War Two

Published: June 24, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 17 seconds

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The women of Bletchley Park

Published: June 20, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 51 seconds

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At home with the royals

Published: June 17, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 35 seconds

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The story of Madame Tussaud

Published: June 13, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 18 seconds

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The life of Saladin

Published: June 10, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 25 seconds

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A new view of D-Day

Published: June 6, 2019, 10 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 56 seconds

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Monarchy and faith in Tudor England

Published: June 3, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 15 seconds

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Rachel Reeves on women who changed politics

Published: May 30, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 47 seconds

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Jacob Rees-Mogg on the Victorians

Published: May 27, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 18 seconds

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Women in the 1960s

Published: May 23, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 9 seconds

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Gentleman Jack

Published: May 20, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 59 seconds

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Jared Diamond on countries in crisis

Published: May 16, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 43 seconds

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Secrets of Britains castles

Published: May 13, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 21 seconds

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The Rise and Fall of the Boleyns

Published: May 9, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 51 seconds

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Women who made modern Britain

Published: May 6, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 23 seconds

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How population has shaped world history

Published: May 2, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 29 seconds

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The landscape of England

Published: April 29, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 21 seconds

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The Amritsar assassin

Published: April 25, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 8 seconds

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Letters from World War Two leaders

Published: April 22, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 20 seconds

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Notre-Dame

Published: April 18, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 26 seconds

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Melvyn Bragg on Heloise and Abelard

Published: April 15, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 5 seconds

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Exploring Britains cathedrals

Published: April 11, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 49 seconds

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The Scottish Clearances

Published: April 8, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 11 seconds

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King John: medieval monster

Published: April 4, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 31 seconds

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World War Two's 'ordinary' soldiers

Published: April 1, 2019, 2:45 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 5 seconds

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Rethinking the crusades

Published: March 28, 2019, 1:15 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 14 seconds

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The women killed by Jack the Ripper

Published: March 25, 2019, 3:15 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 49 seconds

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The global Vikings

Published: March 21, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 18 seconds

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Henry VI: terrible king

Published: March 18, 2019, 10:15 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 21 seconds

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Churchill's navy

Published: March 14, 2019, noon
Duration: 52 minutes 5 seconds

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Victorian murder scandal

Published: March 11, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 43 seconds

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Rutger Bregman: historian in the news

Published: March 7, 2019, 4:08 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 10 seconds

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King George V at war

Published: March 4, 2019, 2:30 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 28 seconds

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Schools through time

Published: Feb. 28, 2019, 5:26 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 37 seconds

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Bart van Es on The Cut Out Girl

Published: Feb. 25, 2019, 10:29 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 14 seconds

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Medieval warrior queen

Published: Feb. 21, 2019, 3:03 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 51 seconds

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A global history of philosophy

Published: Feb. 18, 2019, 10:53 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 48 seconds

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Love in Georgian times

Published: Feb. 14, 2019, 5:50 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 27 seconds

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Eric Hobsbawm: history and politics

Published: Feb. 11, 2019, 3:49 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 40 seconds

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The story of modern Japan

Published: Feb. 7, 2019, 3:35 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 11 seconds

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War and music

Published: Feb. 4, 2019, 2:51 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 55 seconds

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Bonus Episode: How technology is changing politics

Published: Feb. 2, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 39 seconds

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A Roman woman of great power

Published: Jan. 31, 2019, 12:16 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 54 seconds

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World-changing women

Published: Jan. 28, 2019, 4:02 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 59 seconds

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Legacies of the Holocaust

Published: Jan. 24, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 23 seconds

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Diversity in history

Published: Jan. 21, 2019, 3:41 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 31 seconds

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The story of the Hurricane

Published: Jan. 17, 2019, 1 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 16 seconds

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Mary, Queen of Scots tragic life

Published: Jan. 14, 2019, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 13 seconds

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The true history of The Favourite

Published: Jan. 10, 2019, 4:11 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 21 seconds

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Remarkable women through history

Published: Jan. 7, 2019, 5:38 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 24 seconds

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Egypts lost tombs

Published: Jan. 3, 2019, 3:59 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 53 seconds

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Medieval civil war

Published: Dec. 31, 2018, 9 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 11 seconds

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Indians in World War One

Published: Dec. 27, 2018, 9 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 10 seconds

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2018 Christmas history quiz

Published: Dec. 24, 2018, 10:56 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 29 seconds

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Bess of Hardwick: a Tudor success story

Published: Dec. 20, 2018, 5:07 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 17 seconds

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Wonders of the Middle Ages

Published: Dec. 17, 2018, 5:16 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 4 seconds

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Letters that changed the world

Published: Dec. 13, 2018, 7:18 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 21 seconds

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Black radicalism with Kehinde Andrews

Published: Dec. 10, 2018, 3:59 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 29 seconds

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Napoleon: the insecure emperor

Published: Dec. 6, 2018, 4:12 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 14 seconds

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History in colour

Published: Dec. 3, 2018, 5:37 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 11 seconds

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Walter Ralegh: enemy of the state

Published: Nov. 29, 2018, 4:53 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 8 seconds

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The Germans who fought Hitler

Published: Nov. 26, 2018, 4:09 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 35 seconds

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Hunting Britains Nazis

Published: Nov. 22, 2018, 12:44 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 16 seconds

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Tales from D-Day

Published: Nov. 19, 2018, 5:15 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 2 seconds

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Bernard Cornwell on the Last Kingdom

Published: Nov. 15, 2018, 5:39 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 47 seconds

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Nietzsches dangerous ideas

Published: Nov. 12, 2018, 3:01 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 13 seconds

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Dan Snow on shell shock

Published: Nov. 8, 2018, 4:58 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 51 seconds

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The end of the First World War

Published: Nov. 5, 2018, 5:01 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 4 seconds

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Mike Leigh on Peterloo

Published: Nov. 1, 2018, 4:08 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 40 seconds

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The Peterloo Massacre

Published: Oct. 29, 2018, 3:44 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 9 seconds

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Anglo-Saxon treasures

Published: Oct. 25, 2018, 4:52 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 45 seconds

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Thomas Cromwell reconsidered

Published: Oct. 22, 2018, 2:41 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 42 seconds

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A new life of Churchill

Published: Oct. 18, 2018, 4:44 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 52 seconds

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Peter Jackson on the First World War

Published: Oct. 15, 2018, 11:42 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 47 seconds

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Adventures in Iceland

Published: Oct. 11, 2018, 4:29 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 53 seconds

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Brexit and American independence

Published: Oct. 8, 2018, 8:14 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 53 seconds

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Bonus Episode: Identifying Jack the Ripper

Published: Oct. 7, 2018, 7:14 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 2 seconds

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The Nazi on the run

Published: Oct. 5, 2018, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 30 seconds

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The spy who changed the cold war

Published: Oct. 1, 2018, 3:42 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 41 seconds

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Queen Victoria by Lucy Worsley

Published: Sept. 27, 2018, 8:17 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 4 seconds

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Neil Olivers history of the British Isles

Published: Sept. 24, 2018, 4:04 p.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 16 seconds

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The good war?

Published: Sept. 20, 2018, 3:37 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 38 seconds

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The extraordinary history of ordinary things

Published: Sept. 17, 2018, 3:56 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 42 seconds

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A half-hour history of Europe

Published: Sept. 13, 2018, 3:13 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 52 seconds

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Dissent through the centuries

Published: Sept. 10, 2018, 2:38 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 49 seconds

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Who should we commemorate?

Published: Sept. 6, 2018, 3:21 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 37 seconds

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Scots and Catalans

Published: Sept. 3, 2018, 3:43 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 46 seconds

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100 women who changed the world

Published: Aug. 30, 2018, 3:51 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 53 seconds

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Charles de Gaulle reconsidered

Published: Aug. 28, 2018, 3:50 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 50 seconds

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Female spies of the Civil War era

Published: Aug. 23, 2018, 4:41 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 22 seconds

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Captain Cooks Endeavour

Published: Aug. 20, 2018, 4:08 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 51 seconds

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Dan Jones on the secrets of popular history

Published: Aug. 17, 2018, 1:50 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 51 seconds

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Mary Beards life in Classics

Published: Aug. 16, 2018, 4:33 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 2 seconds

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Historical fact and fiction

Published: Aug. 15, 2018, 2:18 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 1 second

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Ian Kershaw on postwar Europe

Published: Aug. 14, 2018, 3:41 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 14 seconds

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Inside the mind of Elizabeth I

Published: Aug. 13, 2018, 5:54 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 44 seconds

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Britons under Nazi rule

Published: Aug. 9, 2018, 4 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 23 seconds

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Islams struggle with modernity

Published: Aug. 6, 2018, 6:14 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 31 seconds

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Britains foreign policy secrets

Published: Aug. 2, 2018, 12:31 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 59 seconds

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The Tommies final acts

Published: July 30, 2018, 3:52 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 1 second

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Catholics in Elizabethan England

Published: July 26, 2018, 2:17 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 5 seconds

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Rethinking 20th-century Britain

Published: July 23, 2018, 3:58 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 33 seconds

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Nelson Mandelas extraordinary life

Published: July 19, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 8 seconds

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The murder of the Romanovs

Published: July 16, 2018, 7:19 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 35 seconds

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Britains refugee camps

Published: July 12, 2018, 3:35 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 7 seconds

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Spies through the ages

Published: July 9, 2018, 10:23 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 18 seconds

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Making the modern world

Published: July 5, 2018, 4 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 11 seconds

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Irelands past and present

Published: July 2, 2018, 4:37 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 33 seconds

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Sherwood Forest through the ages

Published: June 28, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 11 seconds

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The national debt dilemma

Published: June 25, 2018, 3:50 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 53 seconds

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Restoring womens voices

Published: June 21, 2018, 3:46 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 32 seconds

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The history of manners

Published: June 18, 2018, 1:13 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 1 second

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World War One at home

Published: June 14, 2018, 4:40 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 7 seconds

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Grenfell Tower: from hope to tragedy

Published: June 11, 2018, 3:11 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 47 seconds

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Britains Catholic emancipation

Published: June 7, 2018, 8:19 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 23 seconds

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The mystery of Donald Maclean

Published: June 4, 2018, 3 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 30 seconds

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Americas changing dream

Published: May 31, 2018, 3:25 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 16 seconds

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Challenging British heroes

Published: May 29, 2018, 3:26 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 6 seconds

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Jane Seymour: Henry VIIIs favourite queen

Published: May 24, 2018, 3:48 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 4 seconds

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The remarkable history of the Netherlands

Published: May 21, 2018, 2:03 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 36 seconds

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Beevor on Arnhem

Published: May 17, 2018, 12:24 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 59 seconds

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The Women Behind Lord Byron

Published: May 14, 2018, 3:43 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 58 seconds

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The Entebbe raid

Published: May 10, 2018, 9:08 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 35 seconds

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The failings of the French Revolution

Published: May 7, 2018, 9:49 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes

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500 years of medicine

Published: May 3, 2018, 3:44 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 50 seconds

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Were the suffragettes terrorists?

Published: April 30, 2018, 5:19 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 22 seconds

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1983: the Cold War almost goes nuclear

Published: April 26, 2018, 11:44 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 35 seconds

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Economists who changed the world

Published: April 23, 2018, 4:21 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 13 seconds

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Medieval bodies

Published: April 19, 2018, 3 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 8 seconds

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Africas contested past

Published: April 16, 2018, 4:32 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 15 seconds

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Shakespeares greatest actor

Published: April 12, 2018, 3:13 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 8 seconds

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The Vietnam War on film

Published: April 9, 2018, 4:37 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 5 seconds

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Medieval mystics

Published: April 5, 2018, 3:43 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 55 seconds

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A quick history of France

Published: April 3, 2018, 3:49 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 52 seconds

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Creating the SAS

Published: March 29, 2018, 4:25 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 38 seconds

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Opposing the Nazis

Published: March 26, 2018, 4:22 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 58 seconds

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The history of today

Published: March 22, 2018, 9:52 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 26 seconds

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The postwar world

Published: March 19, 2018, 3:31 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 35 seconds

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The Marshall Plan and the Cold War

Published: March 15, 2018, 4:53 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 36 seconds

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Ruth Ellis: the last woman to be hanged in Britain

Published: March 12, 2018, 4:33 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 10 seconds

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Vikings on screen

Published: March 8, 2018, 6:57 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 4 seconds

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Music and revolution

Published: March 5, 2018, 9:19 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 12 seconds

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Schama on Civilisations

Published: March 1, 2018, 11:57 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 26 seconds

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Science and suffrage

Published: Feb. 26, 2018, 4:33 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 11 seconds

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The Terracotta Warriors

Published: Feb. 22, 2018, 3:26 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 52 seconds

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BBC Arabic at 80

Published: Feb. 19, 2018, 6:21 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 42 seconds

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The World Cup story

Published: Feb. 15, 2018, 5:03 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 22 seconds

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The Spanish Flu pandemic

Published: Feb. 12, 2018, 5:04 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 24 seconds

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The Pankhursts

Published: Feb. 8, 2018, 2:59 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 47 seconds

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The Suffragettes

Published: Feb. 5, 2018, 5:06 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 50 seconds

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Elizabeths love rival

Published: Feb. 1, 2018, 5:18 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 2 seconds

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Britains secret wartime prison

Published: Jan. 29, 2018, 4:28 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 14 seconds

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Living with the oceans

Published: Jan. 25, 2018, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 32 seconds

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The story of the Bayeux Tapestry

Published: Jan. 22, 2018, 4:29 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 12 seconds

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East End Crime

Published: Jan. 18, 2018, 6:06 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 31 seconds

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Prisoners of war

Published: Jan. 15, 2018, 5:09 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 55 seconds

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Mary Shelley and her monster

Published: Jan. 11, 2018, 4:31 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 43 seconds

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The tragedy of Lady Jane Grey

Published: Jan. 8, 2018, 9:20 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 21 seconds

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Hamilton: the man behind the musical

Published: Jan. 4, 2018, 4:35 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 24 seconds

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Churchills darkest hour

Published: Jan. 2, 2018, 4:21 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 11 seconds

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1917: The world at war

Published: Dec. 28, 2017, noon
Duration: 40 minutes 40 seconds

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Christmas history quiz

Published: Dec. 25, 2017, 9 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 19 seconds

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Alfred the Great and science at Christmas

Published: Dec. 21, 2017, 3 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 52 seconds

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The origins of civilisation

Published: Dec. 18, 2017, 7:59 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 38 seconds

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Cornwell on Shakespeare

Published: Dec. 14, 2017, 4:59 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 16 seconds

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Eating with Dickens

Published: Dec. 11, 2017, 8:56 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 51 seconds

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Animals that changed us

Published: Dec. 7, 2017, 3:34 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 50 seconds

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Britain on the edge

Published: Dec. 4, 2017, 3:06 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 6 seconds

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Black Tudors

Published: Nov. 30, 2017, 5:06 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 11 seconds

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Victorian medicine

Published: Nov. 27, 2017, 4:22 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 47 seconds

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The history of sleep

Published: Nov. 23, 2017, 5:07 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 31 seconds

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Charles II on the run

Published: Nov. 20, 2017, 4:19 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 13 seconds

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Demons and shipwrecks

Published: Nov. 16, 2017, 6:11 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 18 seconds

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Drinking history

Published: Nov. 13, 2017, 10:04 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 6 seconds

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Britains Chinese army

Published: Nov. 9, 2017, 2:35 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 2 seconds

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The Last Kamikazes

Published: Nov. 6, 2017, 4:11 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 43 seconds

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How networks shape history

Published: Nov. 2, 2017, 4:27 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 38 seconds

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The search for King Arthur

Published: Oct. 30, 2017, 8:43 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 38 seconds

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The Medici

Published: Oct. 26, 2017, 4:55 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 47 seconds

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The death of Stalin

Published: Oct. 23, 2017, 4:18 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 32 seconds

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The Gunpowder Plot

Published: Oct. 19, 2017, 3:15 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 4 seconds

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Living with the Gods

Published: Oct. 16, 2017, 6:09 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 2 seconds

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Richard III reconsidered

Published: Oct. 12, 2017, 7:03 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 19 seconds

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The Munich Conference

Published: Oct. 9, 2017, 2:18 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 57 seconds

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The world of the Scythians

Published: Oct. 5, 2017, 3:04 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 1 second

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Starkey on the Reformation

Published: Oct. 2, 2017, 2:22 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 32 seconds

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Tales of war

Published: Sept. 28, 2017, 9:21 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 42 seconds

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Victoria the matchmaker

Published: Sept. 25, 2017, 1:29 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 53 seconds

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Christianity and the classical world

Published: Sept. 21, 2017, 4:46 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 54 seconds

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The Ukrainian famine

Published: Sept. 18, 2017, 3:27 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 9 seconds

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The Knights Templar

Published: Sept. 14, 2017, 4:39 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 44 minutes 33 seconds

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William Marshal: the greatest knight

Published: Sept. 11, 2017, 6:26 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 22 seconds

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The History Hot 100

Published: Sept. 7, 2017, 6:55 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 seconds

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Viking Britain

Published: Sept. 4, 2017, 3:08 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes

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A deadly royal favourite?

Published: Aug. 31, 2017, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 21 seconds

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Queen Victoria behind closed doors

Published: Aug. 29, 2017, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 42 seconds

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Friends or Enemies? Anglo-French relations

Published: Aug. 24, 2017, 3:09 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 13 seconds

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Migrating to Britain

Published: Aug. 21, 2017, 4:34 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 17 seconds

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The Jarrow March

Published: Aug. 17, 2017, 1:13 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 6 seconds

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Witchcraft through the ages

Published: Aug. 14, 2017, 2:36 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 48 seconds

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Icelandic murder mystery

Published: Aug. 10, 2017, 4:48 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 38 seconds

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China in World War Two

Published: Aug. 7, 2017, 2:33 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 47 seconds

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The Koh-i-Noor

Published: Aug. 3, 2017, 1:24 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 31 seconds

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Living through Partition

Published: July 31, 2017, 8:10 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 17 seconds

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The lost objects of South Asia

Published: July 27, 2017, 2:58 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 13 seconds

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The brilliance of Henry James

Published: July 24, 2017, 1:44 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 1 second

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The English in America

Published: July 20, 2017, 2:34 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 15 seconds

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Germanys World War Two

Published: July 18, 2017, 9:40 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 13 seconds

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Voices of the Cold War

Published: July 13, 2017, 5:52 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 41 seconds

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A legendary spymaster

Published: July 10, 2017, 5:17 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 49 seconds

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Hans Sloane and the British Museum

Published: July 6, 2017, 4:19 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 53 seconds

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Female flyers in Nazi Germany

Published: July 3, 2017, 12:24 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 48 seconds

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Children at war

Published: June 29, 2017, 4:40 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 59 seconds

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The Second World War

Published: June 22, 2017, 2:02 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 58 seconds

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Jane Austen and Tudor London

Published: June 15, 2017, 9:46 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 23 seconds

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Medieval manuscripts and the First World War

Published: June 8, 2017, 3:10 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 15 seconds

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The Six-Day War and the Great Fire of London

Published: June 1, 2017, 2:49 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 17 seconds

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Civil wars and Restoration England

Published: May 25, 2017, 12:47 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 51 seconds

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Englands bloody Reformation

Published: May 18, 2017, 1:57 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 36 seconds

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Queen Victorias dinners and Henry VIIIs niece

Published: May 11, 2017, 3:25 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 21 seconds

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Martin Luther and the making of the USA

Published: May 4, 2017, 2:29 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 26 seconds

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The Islamic enlightenment

Published: April 27, 2017, 2:18 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 30 seconds

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Historical fiction and a US murder scandal

Published: April 20, 2017, 12:58 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 4 seconds

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The Father of History and India in the British empire

Published: April 13, 2017, 1:54 p.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 43 seconds

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America in World War One and a naval tragedy

Published: April 6, 2017, 11:16 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 17 seconds

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Women in popular history

Published: March 30, 2017, 5:17 p.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 23 seconds

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Blitzkrieg

Published: March 23, 2017, 2:06 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 5 seconds

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Utopias in history and an environmental disaster

Published: March 16, 2017, 1:53 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 20 seconds

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Postwar occupations and Raleigh bicycles

Published: March 9, 2017, 2:11 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 39 seconds

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The Reformation

Published: March 2, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 20 seconds

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A revolutionary engineer and Victorias Indian confidant

Published: Feb. 23, 2017, 11:29 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 40 seconds

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The roots of modern rage

Published: Feb. 16, 2017, 1:16 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 13 seconds

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The impact of war and a zoological institution

Published: Feb. 9, 2017, 8:08 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 54 seconds

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The Russian revolution and myths of ancient Egypt

Published: Feb. 2, 2017, 6:20 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 59 seconds

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The history of puzzles and the extraordinary life of Lady Anne Barnard

Published: Jan. 26, 2017, 3:20 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 28 seconds

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The Battle of Britain

Published: Jan. 19, 2017, 2:13 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 5 seconds

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A history of Istanbul

Published: Jan. 12, 2017, 10:08 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 58 seconds

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The big questions of the Holocaust

Published: Jan. 5, 2017, 11:43 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 13 seconds

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The birth of Eurasia

Published: Dec. 29, 2016, noon
Duration: 56 minutes 47 seconds

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2016 Christmas history quiz

Published: Dec. 22, 2016, 5:03 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 15 seconds

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Corner shops and Russian ballet

Published: Dec. 15, 2016, 10:25 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 12 seconds

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Historians in parliament

Published: Dec. 8, 2016, 9:38 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 22 seconds

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The attack on Pearl Harbor and physics through the ages

Published: Dec. 1, 2016, 3:12 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 28 seconds

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Arts and Crafts and unusual inventors

Published: Nov. 24, 2016, 3:51 p.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 18 seconds

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Soviet science and feeding Britain at war

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Lenin and the Russian revolutions

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The Great Fire of London

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Jacobites and the Ancient World

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Two King Edwards

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Britains Second World War and the Country House

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Operation Barbarossa

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The history of consumerism and Chinese philosophy

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Shakespeares world and cricket in South Africa

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Charles II and an Atlantic experiment

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The Dissolution and a forgotten colony

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Democracy and an age of genius

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Muslims and Jews in the 16th century

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The Holy Roman Empire and Capability Brown

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Middle East history special

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Verdun and the Renaissance

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Benjamin Franklin in London

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The battle over Henry VIIIs will

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The Romanovs and King Arthur

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A global view of history

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Postwar Germany and medieval CSI

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The amazing history of Egypt

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Victorian bakers and the Leningrad symphony

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2015 Christmas history quiz

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Britains railways and the Titanic

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A history of red hair and amazing animals

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The Battle of the Atlantic and the history of Spain

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Shakespeare in 1606 and Olympic swimmers

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The end of the Cold War and British culture

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The Last Kingdom and Agincourt

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A year in medieval England

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The Brontes and a revolutionary artist

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New views on the Holocaust and 1980s Britain

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Celts special

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The Somme and the Jacobites

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Roman emperors and women through the ages

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North Sea oil and the Blitz

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Killing Mussolini

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Ancient cities and the Norman conquest

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Crusade logistics and the battle over the slave trade

Published: Aug. 13, 2015, 1:59 p.m.
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The Pacific War and First World War black soldiers

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Ancient thinkers and the history of madness

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Witch trials and feuding queens

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Anglo-Saxon saints and British slave-owners

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Regency scandal and the history of canals

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India at war and mining accidents

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Terror in Elizabethan England

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Waterloo 200 special

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The real King John and the BBC in World War Two

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Queen Victoria at home and a new Civil War museum

Published: June 4, 2015, 12:43 p.m.
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The Battle of the Bulge and children of the Holocaust

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The history of India and a terrible explosion

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Wolfson History Prize 2015 special

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VE Day special

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Magna Carta and the Holocaust

Published: April 30, 2015, 12:56 p.m.
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Medieval universities and an unlikely friendship

Published: April 23, 2015, 11:56 a.m.
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Gallipoli and famine

Published: April 16, 2015, 12:55 p.m.
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Saladin and suffragettes

Published: April 9, 2015, 12:54 p.m.
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Science and St Peter

Published: April 2, 2015, 7 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 29 seconds

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The history of immigration

Published: March 26, 2015, 2:37 p.m.
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Richard III reburial special

Published: March 19, 2015, 12:36 p.m.
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Food from the past and the history of illegitimacy

Published: March 12, 2015, 12:34 p.m.
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Shakespeare and war in the Middle East

Published: March 5, 2015, 12:33 p.m.
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The life of Keynes and a trip to Ancient Greece

Published: Feb. 26, 2015, 10:05 a.m.
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The Peasants Revolt

Published: Feb. 19, 2015, 10:04 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 59 seconds

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Amazing inventions and London after dark

Published: Feb. 12, 2015, 1:03 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 35 seconds

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Life in the workhouse and British biographies

Published: Feb. 5, 2015, 2:02 p.m.
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Elizabeth I and an unlikely suffragette

Published: Jan. 29, 2015, 2:01 p.m.
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Debating British monarchy

Published: Jan. 22, 2015, 9:59 a.m.
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Henry VIII and Henry the Young King

Published: Jan. 15, 2015, 2:12 p.m.
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Wolf Hall and medieval civil war

Published: Jan. 8, 2015, 2:12 p.m.
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Stalins early years and Mein Kampf

Published: Jan. 1, 2015, 5 a.m.
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Christmas podcast quiz

Published: Dec. 24, 2014, 3:57 p.m.
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Kamikaze pilots and Captain John Smith

Published: Dec. 18, 2014, 5:24 p.m.
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Student radicals and Crete in WWII

Published: Dec. 11, 2014, 1:21 p.m.
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The North Sea and Bronze Age remains

Published: Dec. 4, 2014, 12:20 p.m.
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Revolutions in Europe and forensics in history

Published: Nov. 27, 2014, 4:39 p.m.
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Science fiction and dancing in history

Published: Nov. 13, 2014, 10:26 a.m.
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The Berlin Wall and the return of Charles II

Published: Nov. 6, 2014, 12:16 p.m.
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The Gunpowder Plot and the First World War

Published: Oct. 30, 2014, 2:11 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 26 seconds

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Germany through the centuries and Hitlers cocaine habit

Published: Oct. 23, 2014, 9:10 a.m.
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Georgian gardens and historical fiction

Published: Oct. 16, 2014, 10:09 a.m.
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The battle of Agincourt and the Spanish communists

Published: Oct. 9, 2014, 3:08 p.m.
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The trials of Joan of Arc

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The history of humanity

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Hunting the regicides and the Chartist movement

Published: Sept. 18, 2014, 5:11 p.m.
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Fresh views on the Wars of the Roses

Published: Sept. 11, 2014, 2:39 p.m.
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Thomas Cromwells fall from grace

Published: Sept. 4, 2014, 3:07 p.m.
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George III and the art of anatomy

Published: Aug. 28, 2014, 4:05 p.m.
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The long history of the Crusades

Published: Aug. 21, 2014, 9:03 a.m.
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James Bond and Vichy France

Published: Aug. 14, 2014, 9 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 55 seconds

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The global First World War

Published: Aug. 7, 2014, 3:48 p.m.
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The German view on the First World War

Published: July 31, 2014, 4 p.m.
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Richard III and dirty Tudors

Published: July 24, 2014, 3:22 p.m.
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The World War Two French resistance and British holidays

Published: July 17, 2014, 3 p.m.
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Cold War smuggling and First World War veterans

Published: July 10, 2014, 3:33 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 43 seconds

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Delphi and the Spanish empire

Published: July 3, 2014, 2:16 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 15 seconds

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Finance and war

Published: June 26, 2014, 9:42 a.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 5 seconds

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English gardens and Latin American football

Published: June 19, 2014, 10:41 a.m.
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The legacy of the First World War

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D-Day and the Wars of the Roses

Published: May 29, 2014, 1:48 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 3 seconds

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Roman slavery and the man who started the First World War

Published: May 22, 2014, 5 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes

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Monte Cassino and revolutionary Russia

Published: May 15, 2014, 3:47 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 35 seconds

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Thomas Malthus and Wilkie Collins

Published: May 8, 2014, 12:46 p.m.
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Victorian burials and the history of psychology

Published: May 1, 2014, noon
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The value of war and the rail revolution

Published: April 24, 2014, 2 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 37 seconds

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African history special

Published: April 17, 2014, 1 p.m.
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Lawrence of Arabia and the Romanov sisters

Published: April 10, 2014, 5:35 p.m.
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Britain in the 1970s

Published: April 3, 2014, 8:30 a.m.
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Anglo-Saxon treasures, and did Britain invent freedom?

Published: March 27, 2014, 6 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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Cold War spies and friendship through the ages

Published: March 20, 2014, 5:22 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 12 seconds

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Escaping the Blitz and recording the First World War

Published: March 13, 2014, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 35 seconds

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Viking treasures and Hitler's 'perfect woman'

Published: March 6, 2014, 2:21 p.m.
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Tasmanian aborigines and the historic importance of the River Nile

Published: Feb. 27, 2014, 5 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 37 seconds

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Napoleon's formative years and great thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment

Published: Feb. 20, 2014, 2:45 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 46 seconds

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The Babylonian Noah and Norse mythology

Published: Feb. 13, 2014, 4:48 p.m.
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Royal cousins at war and Brunel's brilliance

Published: Feb. 6, 2014, 5 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 23 seconds

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Memories of Churchill and the history of the individual

Published: Jan. 30, 2014, 3:07 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 15 seconds

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Paxman on World War One

Published: Jan. 23, 2014, 4:06 p.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 13 seconds

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Britain and the Union

Published: Jan. 17, 2014, 11:05 a.m.
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Britain in 1914 and Jesus in history

Published: Jan. 9, 2014, 5:40 p.m.
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The aftermath of the Second World War

Published: Jan. 2, 2014, 12:03 p.m.
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The Black Death and Tudor adventurers

Published: Dec. 27, 2013, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 55 seconds

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Published: Dec. 19, 2013, 6 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 43 seconds

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Nelson Mandela special

Published: Dec. 12, 2013, 5:33 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 17 seconds

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The legacy of the First World War and Gandhi's early years

Published: Dec. 5, 2013, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 37 seconds

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Victorian vigour and a remarkable family

Published: Nov. 28, 2013, 5 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 37 seconds

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JFK and a neglected Tudor

Published: Nov. 21, 2013, 5:10 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 57 seconds

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Global history and the rise of the factories

Published: Nov. 14, 2013, 6 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 41 seconds

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Cold War culture and the path to the First World War

Published: Nov. 7, 2013, 5 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 18 seconds

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A new look at Nelson and a haunted castle

Published: Oct. 31, 2013, noon
Duration: 51 minutes 26 seconds

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Tudor portraits and Victorian footballers

Published: Oct. 24, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 27 seconds

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Ancient Greek theatre and Victorian prisons

Published: Oct. 17, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 seconds

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The First World War and Richard III

Published: Oct. 10, 2013, 11 a.m.
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The mysteries of the Princes in the Tower

Published: Oct. 3, 2013, 11 a.m.
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Ancient burials and modern murders

Published: Sept. 26, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 seconds

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Witch-hunting and medieval letter writing

Published: Sept. 19, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 27 seconds

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A fresh look at an Ancient Greek classic

Published: Sept. 12, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 15 seconds

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On the Civil War trail

Published: Sept. 5, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 3 seconds

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A fresh look at Edward III

Published: Aug. 29, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 45 seconds

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England and Scotland go to war

Published: Aug. 22, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 13 seconds

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The history behind the White Queen

Published: Aug. 15, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 25 seconds

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The downfall of Mary, Queen of Scots and a British civil rights struggle

Published: Aug. 8, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes

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Early Christianity in England and Douglas Hurd on Disraeli

Published: Aug. 1, 2013, 11 a.m.
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English Heritage's History Live festival at Kelmarsh Hall in Northamptonshire

Published: July 25, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 38 seconds

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The Spanish Armada and an Iron Age mansion

Published: July 18, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 50 seconds

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Georgian marriage and food in history

Published: July 11, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 57 seconds

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China's Second World War and royal births through the ages

Published: July 4, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 6 seconds

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Nazi spies and Viking ships

Published: June 27, 2013, 11 a.m.
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Margaret Thatcher's path to power, and the story of the Devonshires

Published: June 21, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 29 seconds

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Elizabeth I's two bodies

Published: June 13, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 9 seconds

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Richard III vs Henry VII

Published: June 6, 2013, 11 a.m.
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Horrible Histories special

Published: May 30, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 23 seconds

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A history of the world and a second Norman Conquest

Published: May 23, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 35 seconds

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Published: May 16, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 27 seconds

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Ancient Greek warriors and Neolithic huts

Published: May 9, 2013, 11 a.m.
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Sick royals and the last year of peace

Published: May 2, 2013, 11 a.m.
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Britain's last Dambuster

Published: April 25, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 35 seconds

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The ideas of the First World War

Published: April 18, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 19 seconds

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Dwarves in the Holocaust and the Vikings' cultural legacy

Published: April 11, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 17 seconds

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Pompeii comes to London

Published: April 4, 2013, 11 a.m.
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With Anne Boleyn at the Tower

Published: March 28, 2013, noon
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Henry V and Thomas Cromwell hero and villain

Published: March 21, 2013, noon
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German prisoners and Nelson's navy

Published: March 14, 2013, noon
Duration: 54 minutes 1 second

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Papal election special

Published: March 7, 2013, noon
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The Industrial Revolution and post-war eugenics

Published: Feb. 28, 2013, noon
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Georgian banking and medieval royalty

Published: Feb. 21, 2013, noon
Duration: 43 minutes 38 seconds

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Hitler's philosophers, and a Bronze Age boat

Published: Feb. 14, 2013, noon
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Richard III special

Published: Feb. 7, 2013, noon
Duration: 53 minutes 50 seconds

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Britain's European rejection and an intimate view of archaeology

Published: Jan. 31, 2013, noon
Duration: 37 minutes 22 seconds

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Spielberg's Lincoln and a new look at Jane Austen

Published: Jan. 24, 2013, noon
Duration: 48 minutes 46 seconds

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The history of music and the Knights Templar

Published: Jan. 17, 2013, noon
Duration: 52 minutes 24 seconds

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Tudor accidents and the real Anglo-Saxons

Published: Jan. 10, 2013, noon
Duration: 53 minutes 30 seconds

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Royal personality in Tudor and Medieval times

Published: Jan. 3, 2013, noon
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The First World War and Roman shopping

Published: Dec. 27, 2012, noon
Duration: 47 minutes 25 seconds

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History Extra Christmas quiz

Published: Dec. 25, 2012, noon
Duration: 23 minutes 23 seconds

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Napoleon and Mussolini

Published: Dec. 13, 2012, noon
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 52 seconds

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The Victorian cadaver trade, and lessons from the past masters

Published: Dec. 6, 2012, noon
Duration: 54 minutes 31 seconds

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Black soldiers in the World War Two, and medical history research

Published: Nov. 29, 2012, noon
Duration: 52 minutes 2 seconds

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Edward I and maps through history

Published: Nov. 22, 2012, noon
Duration: 48 minutes 38 seconds

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Jujitsu suffragettes and the Battle of El Alamein

Published: Nov. 15, 2012, noon
Duration: 55 minutes 55 seconds

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The importance of the Tudors

Published: Nov. 8, 2012, noon
Duration: 49 minutes 12 seconds

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Why the Plantagenets matter

Published: Nov. 1, 2012, noon
Duration: 1 hour 46 seconds

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The early years of the Iron Curtain and violence on the wane

Published: Oct. 25, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 39 seconds

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World War Two farming and a new time saver for historians

Published: Oct. 18, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 16 seconds

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The Battle of Poitiers and WWII strategy

Published: Oct. 11, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 2 seconds

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History for future generations

Published: Oct. 4, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 41 seconds

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Letters from the USSR

Published: Sept. 27, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 20 seconds

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Victorian cohabitation and the Libor scandal

Published: Sept. 20, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 10 seconds

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Disability through the ages

Published: Sept. 13, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 2 seconds

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The battle for Madagascar and The Wars of the Roses

Published: Sept. 6, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 40 seconds

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The Spanish Civil War

Published: Aug. 30, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 48 seconds

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Historical geography and cookery

Published: Aug. 23, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 48 seconds

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American religions

Published: Aug. 16, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 5 seconds

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The Royal Navy

Published: Aug. 9, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 56 seconds

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The British Army

Published: Aug. 2, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 6 seconds

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The Cold War Olympic boycott

Published: July 26, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 3 seconds

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Medieval travel and anti-suffrage postcards

Published: July 19, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 5 seconds

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Smuggling and sport

Published: July 12, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 20 seconds

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Historic healthcare

Published: July 5, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 54 seconds

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British queens

Published: June 28, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 55 seconds

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Ancient Egypt and Trafalgar

Published: June 21, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 4 seconds

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The Scottish military

Published: June 14, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 40 seconds

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The subcontinent

Published: June 7, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 17 seconds

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Napoleon in Russia

Published: May 31, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 24 seconds

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Thomas Beckett and WWII relived

Published: May 24, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 57 seconds

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Viking sagas and royal pageants

Published: May 17, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 35 seconds

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The War of Independence

Published: May 9, 2012, 11 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 17 seconds

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Shakespeare's Richard III

Published: May 3, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 48 seconds

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The Norman Conquest

Published: April 26, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 49 seconds

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History in our schools

Published: April 19, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 18 seconds

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Shakespeare's Richard II

Published: April 12, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 54 seconds

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The Falklands War

Published: April 5, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 25 seconds

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The FBI

Published: March 29, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 24 seconds

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Letters from the front line

Published: March 22, 2012, noon
Duration: 47 minutes 2 seconds

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Tudor courtiers and the Great Bed of Ware

Published: March 15, 2012, noon
Duration: 1 hour 41 seconds

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Fleeing nuns and sinking ships

Published: March 8, 2012, noon
Duration: 50 minutes 17 seconds

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Britain's enemies

Published: March 1, 2012, noon
Duration: 43 minutes 10 seconds

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Jeremy Paxman on the empire

Published: Feb. 23, 2012, noon
Duration: 53 minutes 20 seconds

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Foxe's Book of Martyrs

Published: Feb. 16, 2012, noon
Duration: 47 minutes

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100th episode special

Published: Feb. 9, 2012, noon
Duration: 57 minutes 24 seconds

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Homosexuals in the armed forces

Published: Feb. 2, 2012, noon
Duration: 50 minutes 27 seconds

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Civilisations old and new and the M Shed museum

Published: Jan. 26, 2012, noon
Duration: 51 minutes 35 seconds

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Antarctic expedition special

Published: Jan. 19, 2012, noon
Duration: 49 minutes 1 second

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Ancient Egypt through Victorian eyes

Published: Jan. 12, 2012, noon
Duration: 51 minutes 36 seconds

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King George VI and stories from Africa

Published: Jan. 5, 2012, noon
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 20 seconds

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How is history relevant to us?

Published: Dec. 29, 2011, noon
Duration: 43 minutes 55 seconds

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Hidden tunnels in Exeter

Published: Dec. 22, 2011, noon
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 58 seconds

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Religion and war

Published: Dec. 15, 2011, noon
Duration: 49 minutes 57 seconds

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Peter Englund's new book

Published: Dec. 8, 2011, noon
Duration: 55 minutes 26 seconds

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How to escape the tower

Published: Dec. 1, 2011, noon
Duration: 42 minutes 33 seconds

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The mourning of Queen Victoria

Published: Nov. 24, 2011, noon
Duration: 48 minutes 55 seconds

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Voices of veterans and the debate on sugar

Published: Nov. 17, 2011, noon
Duration: 51 minutes 3 seconds

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Second World War arctic convoys

Published: Nov. 10, 2011, noon
Duration: 41 minutes 23 seconds

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Dambusters

Published: Nov. 3, 2011, noon
Duration: 34 minutes 20 seconds

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Edward III and a naval battle

Published: Oct. 28, 2011, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 31 seconds

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Misconceptions of WWII

Published: Oct. 21, 2011, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 1 second

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A new history of England and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Published: Oct. 14, 2011, 11 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 51 seconds

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Queen Matilda

Published: Oct. 7, 2011, 11 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 58 seconds

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Bernard Cornwell on his novels

Published: Sept. 30, 2011, 11 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 32 seconds

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The East India Company and Nelson

Published: Sept. 23, 2011, 11 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 15 seconds

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The spies of Queen Elizabeth I

Published: Sept. 16, 2011, 11 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 25 seconds

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Being a British Missionary and troubles in Ireland

Published: Sept. 9, 2011, 11 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 37 seconds

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The end of slavery and headaches in history

Published: Sept. 2, 2011, 11 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 15 seconds

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Greek slavery, Victorian heroism and Dan Snow on cars

Published: Aug. 26, 2011, 11 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 44 seconds

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Germany's defeat

Published: Aug. 19, 2011, 11 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 20 seconds

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The Victorian telegraph and Dan Snow on his new series

Published: Aug. 12, 2011, 11 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 41 seconds

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The conquest of Wales and Mary I

Published: Aug. 5, 2011, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 52 seconds

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Summer holidays and Edward VI

Published: July 29, 2011, 11 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 50 seconds

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The career of one of England's most well-known kings

Published: July 22, 2011, 11 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 43 seconds

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The origins of the Tudors

Published: July 15, 2011, 11 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 18 seconds

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Back to school and Hitler's schemes for war

Published: July 8, 2011, 11 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 15 seconds

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Britain under Roman rule and the truth about the crusades

Published: July 1, 2011, 11 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 35 seconds

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The Duke of Wellington and Alfred the Great

Published: June 24, 2011, 11 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 32 seconds

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News for the BBC's Doomsday Project and the future of the National Archive

Published: June 1, 2011, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 52 seconds

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History Extra podcast - May 2011

Published: May 1, 2011, 11 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 40 seconds

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History Extra podcast - April 2011

Published: April 1, 2011, 11 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 33 seconds

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History Extra podcast - March 2011

Published: March 1, 2011, noon
Duration: 51 minutes 30 seconds

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History Extra podcast - February 2011

Published: Feb. 1, 2011, noon
Duration: 47 minutes 23 seconds

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History Extra podcast - January 2011

Published: Jan. 1, 2011, noon
Duration: 49 minutes 43 seconds

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History Extra podcast - Christmas 2010

Published: Dec. 25, 2010, noon
Duration: 23 minutes 36 seconds

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History Extra podcast - December 2010

Published: Dec. 1, 2010, noon
Duration: 41 minutes 27 seconds

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History Extra podcast - November 2010

Published: Nov. 1, 2010, noon
Duration: 44 minutes 36 seconds

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History Extra podcast - October 2010

Published: Oct. 1, 2010, 11 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 15 seconds

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History Extra podcast - September 2010

Published: Sept. 1, 2010, 11 a.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 57 seconds

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History Extra podcast - August 2010

Published: Aug. 1, 2010, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 56 seconds

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History Extra podcast - July 2010

Published: July 1, 2010, 11 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 32 seconds

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History Extra podcast - June 2010

Published: June 1, 2010, 11 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 31 seconds

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History Extra podcast - May 2010

Published: May 1, 2010, 11 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 41 seconds

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History Extra podcast - April 2010

Published: April 1, 2010, 11 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 15 seconds

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History Extra podcast - March 2010

Published: March 1, 2010, noon
Duration: 40 minutes 29 seconds

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History Extra podcast - February 2010

Published: Feb. 1, 2010, noon
Duration: 47 minutes 53 seconds

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History Extra podcast - January 2010

Published: Jan. 1, 2010, noon
Duration: 35 minutes 11 seconds

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History Extra podcast - December 2009 - Part 2

Published: Dec. 15, 2009, noon
Duration: 34 minutes 11 seconds

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History Extra podcast - December 2009 - Part 1

Published: Dec. 1, 2009, noon
Duration: 36 minutes 34 seconds

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History Extra podcast - November 2009 - Part 2

Published: Nov. 15, 2009, noon
Duration: 29 minutes 26 seconds

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History Extra podcast - November 2009 - Part 1

Published: Nov. 1, 2009, noon
Duration: 43 minutes 29 seconds

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History Extra podcast - October 2009 - Part 2

Published: Oct. 15, 2009, 11 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 29 seconds

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History Extra podcast - October 2009 - Part 1

Published: Oct. 1, 2009, 11 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 53 seconds

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History Extra podcast - September 2009 - Part 2

Published: Sept. 15, 2009, 11 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 3 seconds

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History Extra podcast - September 2009 - Part 1

Published: Sept. 1, 2009, 11 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 42 seconds

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History Extra podcast - August 2009 - Part 2

Published: Aug. 15, 2009, 11 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 53 seconds

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History Extra podcast - August 2009 - Part 1

Published: Aug. 1, 2009, 11 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 41 seconds

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History Extra podcast - July 2009 - Part 2

Published: July 15, 2009, 11 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 29 seconds

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History Extra podcast - July 2009 - Part 1

Published: July 1, 2009, 11 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 23 seconds

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History Extra podcast - June 2009 - Part 2

Published: June 15, 2009, 11 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 57 seconds

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History Extra podcast - June 2009 - Part 1

Published: June 1, 2009, 11 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 3 seconds

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History Extra podcast - May 2009 - Part 2

Published: May 15, 2009, 11 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 48 seconds

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History Extra podcast - May 2009 - Part 1

Published: May 1, 2009, 11 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 53 seconds

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History Extra podcast - April 2009 - Part 2

Published: April 15, 2009, 11 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 38 seconds

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History Extra podcast - April 2009 - Part 1

Published: April 1, 2009, 11 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 54 seconds

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History Extra podcast - March 2009 - Part 2

Published: March 15, 2009, noon
Duration: 32 minutes 9 seconds

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History Extra podcast - March 2009 - Part 1

Published: March 1, 2009, noon
Duration: 32 minutes 56 seconds

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History Extra podcast - February 2009 - Part 2

Published: Feb. 15, 2009, noon
Duration: 35 minutes 39 seconds

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History Extra podcast - February 2009 - Part 1

Published: Feb. 1, 2009, noon
Duration: 46 minutes

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History Extra podcast - January 2009 - Part 2

Published: Jan. 15, 2009, noon
Duration: 43 minutes 42 seconds

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History Extra podcast - January 2009 - Part 1

Published: Jan. 1, 2009, noon
Duration: 40 minutes 4 seconds

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History Extra podcast - December 2008 - Part 2

Published: Dec. 25, 2008, noon
Duration: 33 minutes 42 seconds

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History Extra podcast - December 2008 - Part 1

Published: Dec. 1, 2008, noon
Duration: 53 minutes 50 seconds

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History Extra podcast - November 2008 - Part 2

Published: Nov. 15, 2008, noon
Duration: 50 minutes 27 seconds

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History Extra podcast - November 2008 - Part 1

Published: Nov. 1, 2008, noon
Duration: 52 minutes 40 seconds

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History Extra podcast - October 2008 - Part 2

Published: Oct. 15, 2008, 11 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 4 seconds

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History Extra podcast - October 2008 - Part 1

Published: Oct. 1, 2008, 11 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 49 seconds

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History Extra podcast - September 2008

Published: Sept. 1, 2008, 11 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 47 seconds

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History Extra podcast - August 2008

Published: Aug. 1, 2008, 11 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 30 seconds

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History Extra podcast - July 2008

Published: July 1, 2008, 11 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 58 seconds

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History Extra podcast - June 2008

Published: June 1, 2008, 11 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 56 seconds

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History Extra podcast - May 2008

Published: May 1, 2008, 11 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 32 seconds

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History Extra podcast - April 2008

Published: April 1, 2008, 11 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 41 seconds

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History Extra podcast - March 2008

Published: March 1, 2008, noon
Duration: 50 minutes 22 seconds

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History Extra podcast - February 2008

Published: Feb. 1, 2008, noon
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 1 second

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History Extra podcast - January 2008

Published: Jan. 1, 2008, noon
Duration: 47 minutes 57 seconds

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History Extra podcast - Christmas Quiz

Published: Dec. 25, 2007, noon
Duration: 52 minutes 53 seconds

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History Extra podcast - December 2007

Published: Dec. 1, 2007, noon
Duration: 50 minutes 6 seconds

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History Extra podcast - November 2007

Published: Nov. 1, 2007, noon
Duration: 33 minutes 19 seconds

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History Extra podcast - October 2007

Published: Oct. 1, 2007, 11 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 26 seconds

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History Extra podcast - September 2007

Published: Sept. 1, 2007, 11 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 38 seconds

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History Extra podcast - August 2007

Published: Aug. 1, 2007, 11 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 6 seconds

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History Extra podcast - July 2007

Published: July 1, 2007, 11 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 33 seconds

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History Extra podcast - June 2007

Published: June 1, 2007, 11 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 18 seconds

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