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Assyria and the Birth of Writing
It is often the case that it is assumed that it was in ancient Greece and the eastern Mediterranean that was host to the foundation of European politics, culture, economics and engineering. But in fa…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
Ethel Rosenberg: Super Spy or Innocent Victim?
In June 1953 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, an American married couple with two young sons, were executed having been found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union. Julius was undo…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
D. H. Lawrence and the Lady Chatterley Trial
D.H. Lawrence is best known for his work Lady Chatterley's Lover and the obscenity trial relating to the book's publication in the early 1960s. But Lawrence is in fact one of the most important Briti…
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The Truth About King Arthur
The legend of King Arthur has been reworked many times, but is there any historical truth behind the tales? Dr Miles Russell believes there is and in this episode, from our sibling podcast The Ancien…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
The Battle of the Somme
105 years ago the battle of the Somme raged on into its second day. 60,000 British casualties we recorded on its first day and by its close in November 1916 over a million men had been killed or woun…
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100 years of the Chinese Communist Party
100 years ago the Chinese Communist Party was founded and across the span of that century has become one of the most powerful organisations on the planet. Today, it is an economic powerhouse and a su…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
The Voyage That Changed the Way We Eat
In February 1882 the SS Dunedin departed New Zealand on a voyage that would revolutionise the way we eat and kickstart the globalisation of the world's food supply chain. Aboard were thousands of mut…
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Marginalised in the Middle Ages with Eleanor Janega
Much of Medieval history focuses on the kings, queens, bishops, and the nobility of the period, but what do we know about those people on the margins of society? Like today the elite made up only a s…
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Sarajevo 1914: Assassination of the Archduke
Europe in 1914 was a tinderbox of imperial tensions and the spark that would light the conflagration would be the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. But there is much more to this story than …
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Berlin and the Dawn of the Cold War
In the aftermath of World War II, amongst the shattered ruins of Berlin a new conflict was born, the Cold War. With the common purpose of defeating Nazi Germany gone the allied powers were soon no lo…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago