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When Football Banned Women
England’s historic Euro 2022 victory on Sunday night was the most watched TV programme of the year. It feels like it's the first time women's footbal…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Defeat of the Spanish Armada
In July 1588 the Spanish Armada sailed from Corunna to conquer England. Three weeks later an English fireship attack in the Channel—and then a fierce…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Long Death of Slavery
We celebrate abolition - in Haiti after the revolution, in the British Empire in 1833, and in the United States during the Civil War. Yet, over the a…
3 years, 7 months ago
Anne of Cleves
Anne of Cleves was the ‘last woman standing’ of Henry VIII’s wives and the only one buried in Westminster Abbey. How did she manage it? Was she in fa…
3 years, 7 months ago
A Short History of the Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire was gigantic; at one point it reached the walls of Vienna to the Persian Gulf and beyond. It was established at the end of the 13t…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Biggest Prison Breakout of WW2
During World War II, in the town of Cowra in central New South Wales, thousands of Japanese prisoners of war were held in a POW camp. On the icy nigh…
3 years, 7 months ago
Putin, Power and Personality
Vladimir Putin has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm. He invades his neighbours, most recently Ukraine…
3 years, 7 months ago
Waterloo Uncovered: Bones from the Battlefield
In a special episode from our sister podcast Warfare, Dan is joined by host James Rogers fresh off the Waterloo battlefield in Belgium where last wee…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Apollo Programme with Kevin Fong
Getting to the moon was no easy feat, no matter how confident President Kennedy may have sounded in his famous 1961 speech. NASA built a team from th…
3 years, 8 months ago
Hatshepsut: The Temple of Egypt's Female Pharaoh
On the West Bank of the Nile in Luxor, Egypt sits a temple considered to be one of the great architectural wonders of ancient Egypt. The memorial tem…
3 years, 8 months ago