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Season 1 Episode 138
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For most of human history, time was a local affair. Noon was when the sun sat highest in the sky, and every town lived by its own clo…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
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…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
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 …
9 months ago
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…
9 months, 1 week ago
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…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
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…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
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…
10 months, 1 week ago
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…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
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…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
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 …
10 months, 4 weeks ago