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Back to SearchRoger Mortimer: medieval rebel
Episode 1734
Seven hundred years ago this August, Roger Mortimer broke out of the Tower of London and went on to mastermind the deposition of his captor and arch-…
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Emotional revolution in postwar Britain
Episode 1733
After the psychological trauma and family separation of the Second World War, Britain underwent an emotional revolution. Psychologists and social ref…
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Rome vs Persia: an unwinnable fight
Episode 1732
The Roman empire was used to getting its own way – but there was one power it was never able to overcome. Despite frequent bouts of warfare, the Part…
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British seaside holidays: everything you wanted to know
Episode 1731
What did Victorians get up to on the beach? When did fish and chips first become popular? And what’s the dark story behind Punch and Judy? It’s time …
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Surviving Hitler and Stalin
Episode 1730
Daniel Finkelstein’s parents were born into comfortable Jewish families in Germany and Poland, but the rise of Nazism and the onset of the Second Wor…
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US Civil Rights: the Montgomery bus boycott
Episode 1729
Rosa Parks’ momentous refusal to vacate her bus seat for a white passenger in 1955 sparked a boycott that lasted for 381 days, and successfully press…
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Renaissance beauty regimes
Episode 1728
Appearance was everything in the Renaissance – a way to make a good marriage and gain power and influence. But what if you fell short of the era’s ex…
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AI: An ancient nightmare?
Episode 1727
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A jujitsu-trained suffragette bodyguard
Episode 1726
Known as “Mrs Pankhurst’s bodyguard”, Kitty Marshall was a cricket-ball-wielding, jujitsu-trained suffragette ready to go fist-to-fist with the polic…
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The NHS: everything you wanted to know
Episode 1725
How did the British public respond when the NHS was first founded 75 years ago? How have the roles of doctors and nurses changed in the decades since…
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