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Mysterious Manuscripts

Season 1 Episode 137

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Some books refuse to be read.
They arrive without an author, without a key, sometimes without even a recognisable language, and then s…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Jane Austen - Her Final Days

Season 1 Episode 136

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In her final years, Jane Austen was finally a published success, and quietly, unmistakably dying.

This episode follows Austen through …

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Hatshepsut

Season 1 Episode 135

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History tells us that Ancient Egypt was a man’s world. Kings, warriors, gods with beards, power passed from father to son like a sacr…

3 months ago

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Rome’s Final Victory (Part Four)

Season 1 Episode 134

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Rome’s legions have crushed rebellion, broken queens, and burned their way across Britain, but the conquest is not yet complete. In t…

3 months, 1 week ago

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The Rise of Boudicca (Part Three)

Season 1 Episode 133

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Rome thought Britain was broken.

In this third episode of the Roman invasion of Britain, we ride straight into fire, blood, and fury w…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

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Rome Invades Britain Again, with Elephants (Part Two)

Season 1 Episode 132

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This episode opens with the bizarre and unsettling prelude under the mad emperor Caligula, when invasion looms like a dark cloud, onl…

4 months ago

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Rome Invades Britain (Part One)

Season 1 Episode 131

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In this episode of Rearview Mirror Chronicles, we return to the moment Julius Caesar steps onto the shores of Britain in 55 BC, a bol…

4 months, 1 week ago

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The Nuremberg Trials and Beyond (Part Two)

Season 1 Episode 130

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In Part One we watched Hermann Goring face the judges at Nuremberg, but Part Two is where the story really hits home. Because Nurembe…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

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Christopher Marlowe - Murdered in London

Season 1 Episode 129

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Christopher Marlowe was a genius, a heretic, and almost certainly a spy.
 In the shadowy world of Elizabethan London, where faith was …

4 months, 3 weeks ago

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They Died for Applause - The Life of a Gladiator

Season 1 Episode 128

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Step inside the blood soaked heart of ancient Rome, where fame was forged in steel and death was sold as entertainment. From slaves a…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

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