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The Parthenon Marbles
The permanent home of the Parthenon Marbles, also known as the Elgin Marbles, has been the subject of a heated, decades-long debate. Currently housed…
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God's Changing Body Through History
While many traditions regard God to be incorporeal, some three thousand years ago in the Southwest Asian lands, a group of people worshipped a comple…
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The Battle of Agincourt Explained
The Battle of Agincourt looms large in the English historical and cultural imagination, this explainer wades through the mythology to help listeners …
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The Unlikely Fate of the Wright Brothers
On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. The Wright Brothers took the world's f…
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Black Tudors: England's Other Countrymen
Our image of the Tudor era remains overwhelmingly white. But the black presence in England was much greater than has previously been recognised, and …
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Uncovered: South America's Biggest Slave Uprising
On February 27 1763, thousands of enslaved people in the Dutch colony of Berbice—in present-day Guyana—launched a huge uprising against their oppress…
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Inside Downing Street with Gavin Barwell
British politician Gavin Barwell served as Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Theresa May from June 2017 to July 2019, one of the most turbulent period…
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Hitler's American Gamble
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7 1941 remains etched in public memory as the turning point of WW2. But in fact, it was Hitler’s decl…
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The Secrets of WW2's Women Soldiers
The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) was the women's branch of the British Army during the Second World War. Formed in 1938 it saw many thousands …
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Battle of Austerlitz: Napoleon's Greatest Victory
2 December is a special date for those fascinated by Napoleon Bonaparte. Not only is this the date he crowned himself Emperor of France in 1804, but …
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