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Flour Power: The Tichborne Dole and the Biddenden Maids
Episode 1332
Each Lady Day, the Hampshire village of Tichborne hands out bags of flour to the locals - a tradition that began on 25th March, 1150 after Lady Marb…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Suffragettes of Sport
Episode 1331
The first international women’s sports event, The Women’s Olympiad, kicked off in Monte Carlo on 24th March, 1921. A hundred athletes from five natio…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Ricky Martin's Latin Explosion
Episode 1330
Ricky Martin’s ‘Livin’ La Vida Loca’ was released on 23rd March, 1999 - launching the singer to worldwide superstardom, and kickstarting a Latino pop…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
What Caused The Black Death?
Episode 1328
The bubonic plague was blamed on witches, Jews, God’s wrath, and, on 20th March 1345, in a new theory propagated by the King of France, the rare plan…
2 months ago
The Horse Bus
Episode 1327
Blaise Pascal created the first organised public transport system: the carrosses à cinq sols (“five-sou carriages”), which had its first full day of …
2 months ago
Braille For Your Feet
Episode 1326
Tenji blocks (点字ブロック) - small raised shapes in the pavement to assist visually impaired people in crossing the road - were first installed near the O…
2 months ago
Parading for St Paddy
Episode 1325
The first ever St. Patrick’s Day parade took place not in Ireland, as many people might expect, but in Spanish Florida, on March 17, 1601. It wasn’t …
2 months ago
Burn The Heretics!
Episode 1324
Over 200 people were burned at the stake on 16th March, 1244, throwing themselves on to the pyre in their refusal to accept the Catholic church.
Thes…
2 months ago
Fall of the Maya
Episode 1322
The Guatemalan island of Flores, once known as Nojpetén, witnessed the final clash between Spanish conquistadors and the last independent Maya kingdo…
2 months, 1 week ago
Yes, We Canberra
Episode 1321
What is Australia’s capital city? Not Sydney. Nor Melbourne. It’s Canberra: so named at an official ceremony on 12th March, 1913 - when the site was …
2 months, 1 week ago