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Take a deep dive into the past as we bring you the very best of BBC History Magazine, Britain’s bestselling history magazine. With a new episode released every Monday, enjoy fascinating and enlightening articles from leading historical experts, covering a broad sweep of the centuries – from the scandals of Georgian society to the horrors of the First World War, revolutions, rebellions, and more.
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Doctor, doctor: remarkable medieval medical cures
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Spectral beasts and hounds from hell
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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The slippery truth of the Dreyfus Affair
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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1066: who was the rightful king?
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Carthage: the making of Rome's monster
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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Treachery, deceit and the death of the Tudor dynasty
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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The Assassins: a reign of terror
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Victoria's secret love affair
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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Æthelstan: England's colossus
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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Hiroshima's atomic plague
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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The sinister secrets of Samuel Pepys
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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Horses: medieval war machines
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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Victorian boxing sensations
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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Mary of Modena: a queen in the eye of a storm
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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Art deco: designs for life
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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Elizabeth I's forbidden love
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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Swings and roundabouts: a history of British playgrounds
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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Julius Caesar's funeral drama
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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Live Aid at 40
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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Inside the Luftwaffe during the battle of Britain
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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Spiked drinks, counterfeit coins and the lodgers from hell
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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The Ambassadors: painting on the precipice
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Jul 13, 2025 |
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The women who shaped Malcolm X
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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Spartacus: Rome's worst nightmare
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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Scotland's season of the witch
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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Why the Great Famine devastated Ireland
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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Why the ancient Egyptians worshipped wine
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Jun 08, 2025 |
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Matchless monsters: female murderers in early modern Britain
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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Richard III's remains: how science identified the king in the car park
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May 25, 2025 |
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Josephine Baker: dancer, activist, spy
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May 18, 2025 |
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Was Charles I a tyrant?
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May 11, 2025 |
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VE Day: was it really one big party?
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May 04, 2025 |
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Dangerous delights: Victorian Britain's cocaine habit
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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Mercia: the lost kingdom
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Apr 20, 2025 |
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Did Ronald Reagan 'make America great again'?
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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Fingers, frogs and fairies: fortune telling in early modern Britain
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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WW2 evacuees: when Britain escaped to the country
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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500,000 years of African history
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Henry III and the Magna Carta that mattered
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Marco Polo's adventures: lands of make believe?
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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The gunpowder plot: how to build a radical
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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The battle of Monte Cassino: a hill to die on
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Why sex was a sin in the Middle Ages
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Ptolemy XII: Cleopatra's father from hell
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Keep smiling: the history of happiness
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Winston Churchill: still the greatest?
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Influencers of the medieval age
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Thomas Cromwell: hero to zero
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Introducing History's Greatest Scandals | New Podcast
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Sarah Biffin: extraordinary artist
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Lord Lucan: what really happened to the missing earl?
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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Gladiators: tales from the Roman arena
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Audacious lady swindlers, con-women and hustlers
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Edward of Warwick: the other prince in the tower
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Mysterious mummification myths
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Henry V's brutal youth
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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Pigs in the medieval city
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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How we found our bearings: the origins of the four compass points
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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Reading the runes: uncovering the everyday lives of the Vikings
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Tales from history's toilets
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Medieval England's political miracle
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Oct 20, 2024 |
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Dudley Clarke: the spy who hoodwinked Hitler
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Oct 13, 2024 |
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Henry VII: the king they couldn't kill
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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The suffragettes: masters of PR
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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Robert the Bruce: the man, the myth, the murderer
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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Oliver Cromwell's postal spies
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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Dark knights and crusading criminals
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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Women of the Greco-Persian Wars
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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Oradour-sur-Glane: one of WW2's most infamous massacres
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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From Tudor to Stuart: a brand new era?
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Aug 18, 2024 |
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The madcap Paris Olympics: how chaos nearly derailed the 1900 Games
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Aug 11, 2024 |
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The West Africa Squadron: Britain's war on slave ships
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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Club AD 130: a Roman holiday
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Jul 28, 2024 |
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Airborne assault: the spearhead of the D-Day invasion
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Jul 21, 2024 |
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The women behind Henry VIII's queens
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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The Normandy campaign's forgotten naval heroes
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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Victorian scandals: sex, sadism & sugared death
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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Roman slaves: the hidden lives of the empire's invisible labour force
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Jun 23, 2024 |
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Cumbria: the forgotten Anglo-Saxon kingdom
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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Emily Anderson: codebreaking pioneer
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Jun 09, 2024 |
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1924's British Empire Exhibition: the empire’s last hurrah?
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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Beastly Victorians: battling animal abuse in the 19th century
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May 26, 2024 |
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The battle of Meggido: ancient Egypt at war
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May 19, 2024 |
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WW1's Eastern Front: the forgotten theatre of war?
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May 12, 2024 |
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Life beyond the margins: female diarists through time
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May 05, 2024 |
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Knights! Camera! Action!: the Middle Ages on film
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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From the Knights Templar to the killing of JFK: the enduring power of conspiracy theories
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Mary vs Elizabeth: sisters at war
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Alexandria: the ancient world's greatest city
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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The war on grey squirrels
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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Medieval breastfeeding: an act of love
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Death and alcohol on Victorian canals
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Wonderlust: exploring the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Labour’s leap to power
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Shakespeare: playing with the past
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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The Bloomsbury Group: the new radicals
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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Lady Killers: what murder scandals reveal about Victorian society
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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The long death of the Roman Republic
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Walter Cowan: Britain's oldest commando
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Matilda of Scotland: the queen behind the veil
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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The Boston Tea Party
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Race across the Atlantic: 1969's wackiest escapade
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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The A to B of medieval travel
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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The Munich beer hall putsch: a botched coup?
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Cartoon Century: Disney at 100
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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The crusade against the odds
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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The hellish WW2 battle for Italy
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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The siege of Calais: a medieval Stalingrad?
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Empire on the brink
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Anne Boleyn’s fatal French connection
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Eleanor Glanville: butterfly collector
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Dick Whittington: London’s golden boy
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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Unearthing Pompeii’s streets
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Templars on trial
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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8 scandals that rocked Georgian Britain
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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Tudor traders: keep calm and ignore the Armada
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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Bannockburn: Scotland’s greatest victory
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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Could WW1 have ended in 1916?
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Pax Romana: peace at the point of a sword
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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Roger Mortimer: king of folly
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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Britain’s love affair with the NHS
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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The original rogue heroes of the SAS
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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Ramesses II: the greatest pharaoh?
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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The forgotten history of Windrush
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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