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Back to SearchSix wives | 5. Catherine Howard
Episode 1663
Catherine Howard was a teenaged bride who captivated King Henry VIII, but was brought down by secrets from her past that refused to remain buried. In…
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Ramesses II: Egypt’s greatest pharaoh?
Episode 1662
Ramesses II is the only pharaoh in history to be known as ‘the great’, but does he deserve that title? Was he the pharaoh in the Exodus story? And wa…
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Tudor childhood: from dodging death to nursery rhymes
Episode 1661
Look at a Tudor family portrait, and you’ll often find children depicted like miniature adults, standing confidently alongside their parents in their…
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What can Richard I tell us about medieval masculinity?
Episode 1660
Was Richard I homosexual, and would it matter if he was? Although he was known to have shared a bed with the King of France, according to Dr Gabriell…
2 years, 10 months ago
Britain in the 1990s: everything you wanted to know
Episode 1659
It was the decade that saw the fall of the Soviet Union, the rise of Tony Blair and the landmark Good Friday Agreement. But what was behind the lands…
2 years, 10 months ago
Everyday life in East Germany
Episode 1658
The story of East Germany has been largely told in the context of Cold War geopolitics. But while the country may have been an ideological battlegrou…
2 years, 10 months ago
Six wives | 4. Anne of Cleves
Episode 1657
Anne of Cleves is remembered as a comedy anecdote, a figure of mockery who repulsed King Henry VIII on first sight. But her reputation deserves to be…
2 years, 10 months ago
Why revolution engulfed 19th-century Europe
Episode 1656
In 1848, a tidal wave of revolution swept across Europe – from Sicily to Paris, Berlin to Vienna. But what sparked this cascade of unrest, and how ca…
2 years, 10 months ago
Keeping time: a watchmaker’s history
Episode 1655
Today we take it for granted that we can meet friends at an agreed time, work a set amount of paid hours, or catch a train before it leaves. But so m…
2 years, 10 months ago
Native Americans: a new history
Episode 1654
For too long, argues Professor Ned Blackhawk, Indigenous people have been marginalised or viewed merely as passive participants in the history of the…
2 years, 10 months ago