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Witches of St Osyth
Episode 1289
In March 1582, a number of women from the small Essex village of St Osyth were hanged for the crime of witchcraft. Several others, including one man,…
2 years, 3 months ago
The Battle of Midway
Episode 1288
On the 4th of June 1942, the US Navy took on the might of Japan's Imperial Navy in the battle of Midway. It was America's Trafalgar! At the end of th…
2 years, 3 months ago
The Bones of Anglo Saxon England
Episode 1287
It's the 13th of December, 1642, and Parliamentarian soldiers have just stormed the city of Winchester. They burst into the city's grand cathedral on…
2 years, 3 months ago
Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
Episode 1285
This is the story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn as you've never heard it before. From their childhoods and courtship through to their union and Anne'…
2 years, 3 months ago
President Thomas Jefferson
Episode 1284
Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, so how did it work out when he became the leader of this nation that he…
2 years, 3 months ago
My Great-Grandfather's War: Lt-Gen Thomas Snow & The Somme
Episode 1283
Dan explores his great-grandfather's part in the First World War. Lieutenant-General Thomas Snow was a senior officer in the British Army who command…
2 years, 3 months ago
The Origins of the Popes
Episode 1282
The popes of Rome emerged from the humblest of beginnings. The first was a fisherman, charged with spreading the word of God under the watchful eye o…
2 years, 3 months ago
Wars of the Roses: Jack Cade’s Rebellion Explained
Episode 1281
It’s one of the most dramatic stories you might never have heard. Featuring a seaborne assassination, a vengeful manhunt and London Bridge in flames,…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Great Caterpillar Outbreak of 1782
Episode 1280
In the spring of 1782, it wasn't the American Revolutionary War that had Londoners worried. The city and nearby countryside had been covered in omino…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Knights Templar
Episode 1279
Few organisations in history have names as loaded with legend as the Knights Templar. Western culture is infused with the mythology of these pious wa…
2 years, 4 months ago