Roman Emperors with Mary Beard
What did it take to become a Roman emperor? Pliny the Elder wrote that a ruler should be...
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Roman Emperors with Mary Beard
What did it take to become a Roman emperor? Pliny the Elder wrote that a ruler should be...
35:23
In March 1582, a number of women from the small Essex village of St Osyth were hanged for the...
59:56
On the 4th of June 1942, the US Navy took on the might of Japan's Imperial Navy in the battle of...
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The Bones of Anglo Saxon England
It's the 13th of December, 1642, and Parliamentarian soldiers have just stormed the city of...
30:08
This is the story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn as you've never heard it before. From their...
48:09
Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, so how did it work...
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My Great-Grandfather's War: Lt-Gen Thomas Snow & The Somme
Dan explores his great-grandfather's part in the First World War. Lieutenant-General Thomas Snow...
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The popes of Rome emerged from the humblest of beginnings. The first was a fisherman, charged...
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Wars of the Roses: Jack Cade’s Rebellion Explained
It’s one of the most dramatic stories you might never have heard. Featuring a seaborne...
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The Great Caterpillar Outbreak of 1782
In the spring of 1782, it wasn't the American Revolutionary War that had Londoners worried. The...
30:56
Few organisations in history have names as loaded with legend as the Knights Templar. Western...
42:34
What would it be like to discover that your grandfather was a Nazi? For decades, generations of...
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In 1848, Europe was wracked by a series of revolutions that turned the established political...
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One of the new Seven Wonders of the World, Chichen Itza is home to monumental pyramids, temples,...
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You may have heard the many myths about the life and exploits of Marco Polo- was he really the...
30:29
Rome has attracted aspiring conquerors and leaders for millennia, not just as a great metropolis,...
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Join Dan as he rollicks through the tumultuous life and rise to power of Henry Tudor, the man who...
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In 1974, a pioneer of the SAS and master of military deception, Dudley Clarke, passed away. His...
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The name Ivan the Terrible is synonymous with brutality and ruthlessness. While Western scholars...
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The Golden Age of Hollywood was a place of pioneers, storytellers, ideas, westward expansion,...
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