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The Fifth Crusade: triumph, disaster and the battle for Egypt
Aug 2, 202645 min
Is the Odyssey myth or memory?
Aug 1, 202643 min
Renaissance Italy's firearm revolution
Jul 30, 202640 min
How blood banks saved Britain in WW2
Jul 28, 202635 min
Pericles: life of the week
Jul 27, 202649 min
Did Churchill save the monarchy?
Jul 26, 202637 min
Gods and monsters: the hidden stories of the Odyssey
Jul 25, 202646 min
Preview: Was Elizabeth I one of history’s greatest leaders?
Jul 24, 202612 min
The Bayeux Tapestry's secret code of tyranny and injustice
Jul 23, 202636 min
How to survive a day in the 14th century
Jul 21, 202637 min
Bess of Hardwick: life of the week
Jul 20, 202634 min
Alliance and acrimony: a history of Jewish-Muslim relations
Jul 19, 202643 min
Who wrote the Odyssey?
Jul 18, 202641 min
1966: The World Cup that changed a nation
Jul 16, 202633 min
How Rome really conquered Britain
Jul 14, 202645 min
Edward Colston: life of the week
Jul 13, 202639 min
Was Elizabeth Báthory really a serial killer?
Jul 12, 202640 min
What did the American Revolution really achieve?
Jul 11, 202635 min
The captain's wife who took command
Jul 9, 202646 min
What could you eat in Georgian London?
Jul 7, 202645 min
Pablo Picasso: life of the week
Jul 6, 202643 min
When football became a weapon of the Cold War
Jul 5, 202639 min
How Britain lost America
Jul 4, 202635 min
A history of the US in 100 unexpected objects
Jul 2, 202638 min
An A-Z history of the English alphabet
Jun 30, 202647 min
Abigail Adams: life of the week
Jun 29, 202639 min
The astonishing laws of medieval Wales
Jun 28, 202645 min
Inside the Declaration of Independence
Jun 27, 202632 min
Cannibalism, heartbreak and Madame Guillotine: George Forster's extraordinary life
Jun 25, 202643 min
Charlotte Brontë's life through clothes
Jun 23, 202636 min
Emma Goldman: life of the week
Jun 22, 202640 min
Stealing the V2 rocket: Britain’s secret WW2 intelligence coup
Jun 21, 202631 min
The road to the American Revolutionary War
Jun 20, 202643 min
The protestant missionaries that didn't change the world
Jun 18, 202643 min
Strangers and aliens in Tudor England
Jun 16, 202643 min
Alexander the Great: life of the week
Jun 15, 202654 min
What myths do we tell about royal women?
Jun 14, 202650 min
Cleopatra’s death – and cultural afterlife
Jun 13, 202638 min
Masters of disinformation: how British spies played dirty in the Cold War
Jun 11, 202634 min
Churchill's toughest decision
Jun 9, 202635 min
Henry Paget: life of the week
Jun 8, 202643 min
The hidden history of female sexual pleasure
Jun 7, 202648 min
Why Cleopatra was more than a bewitching beauty
Jun 6, 202641 min
Better than Bridgerton: the real Georgian masquerade
Jun 4, 202649 min
Weimar's descent from democracy to barbarism
Jun 2, 202639 min
Alan Turing: life of the week
Jun 1, 202645 min
The self-made Marilyn Monroe
May 31, 202649 min
Cleopatra’s bloody rise to power
May 30, 202629 min
Gullible Georgians: hoaxes in the Enlightenment period
May 28, 202650 min
Spies, radicals and deportees: one hotel in wartime Paris
May 26, 202640 min