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Sabotage, cyberwar & assassination: a history of covert action
Episode 1545
Ever since the Greeks supposedly hid inside a wooden horse to sneak into Troy, states have meddled in other nations’ affairs, turning to the dark art…
3 years, 2 months ago
Conspiracy: the lost civilisation of Atlantis
Episode 1544
In the final episode of our series on history’s most well-known conspiracy theories, we investigate the idea that a highly advanced civilisation exis…
3 years, 2 months ago
Conspiracy: was the moon landing faked?
Episode 1543
In the fifth episode of our new series on history’s most well-known conspiracy theories, we revisit a defining moment of the 20th century that many p…
3 years, 2 months ago
Conspiracy: Who wrote Shakespeare?
Episode 1542
In episode four of our new series on history’s most well-known conspiracy theories, we ask why many people don’t believe that William Shakespeare was…
3 years, 2 months ago
Conspiracy: did Anastasia escape her family’s murder?
Episode 1541
In the third episode of our new series on some of history’s most well-known conspiracy theories, we examine the suggestion that one of Tsar Nicholas …
3 years, 2 months ago
Conspiracy: did aliens build the pyramids?
Episode 1540
Continuing our series on some of history’s most well-known conspiracy theories, we delve into the idea that Ancient Egypt’s iconic monuments were bui…
3 years, 2 months ago
Conspiracy: Hitler’s escape to South America
Episode 1539
Did Adolf Hitler really make it out of the bunker alive at the end of the Second World War? In the first episode of our new series on some of history…
3 years, 3 months ago
Alexander the Great’s extraordinary childhood
Episode 1538
Alexander the Great didn’t become a brilliant warrior and empire-builder overnight. His talents were the product of an upbringing that encompassed po…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Cuban Missile Crisis: the road to resolution
Episode 1537
In the concluding episode of our series on the Cuban Missile Crisis, we trace how a tentative compromise coincided with the most dangerous moments of…
3 years, 3 months ago
Dandies, fops & macaronis: fashionable men through history
Episode 1536
Dominic Janes discusses his new history of British dandies, which explores how such ‘dressy men’ – from fops and macaronis, to aesthetes – provoked b…
3 years, 3 months ago