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How Did the Supreme Court Claim Power?
30 July 2026Can you think of a time in history when a law has been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court?
Having been used over 180 times,...
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Was Caesar's invasion of Britain a disaster?
30 July 2026Today, we trace Julius Caesar’s dramatic invasions into Britain - two bold expeditions that tested Rome’s reach at the very edge of the known...
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Alexander the Great's Mad Scientist
30 July 2026WARNING: graphic descriptions of violence and warfare
Meet Diades, Alexander the Great’s overlooked military engineer, the man who made...
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New Discovery: Who Really Wrote Elizabeth I's Letters?
30 July 2026Was Elizabeth I really as angry and bad tempered as history has always claimed? How did some of her most secret state letters come to be penned...
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Britain's Bloodiest Mutiny
30 July 2026The captain of the HMS Hermione was a sadist even by the not-very-high standards of the British Royal Navy in the 1700's. He was a prolific...
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Folk Legends of Iceland
28 July 2026How was folklore woven into the everyday life of medieval Icelanders? How did they make sense of the darkness of their world?
During...
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The Truth About Coco Chanel
28 July 2026You know her from the perfume, the little black dress, the double C bag clasp, but who was the woman, Coco Chanel? What even was her real...
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Life in Mobland Chicago
27 July 2026Just how dangerous was it to live in Chicago during the 1920s? Was it all gangsters, tommy guns and spilt moonshine?
Don is finding out what...
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The Blitz Beyond London
27 July 2026Newcastle, Liverpool, Glasgow, Cardiff - all of these places and more were bombed during the Blitz. From the devastated shipyards of Tyneside to...
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Robespierre & Revolutionary Terror
27 July 2026How did the French Revolution, built on liberty, become ruled by fear? And how did Robespierre - the man who had sent kings, nobles and priests to...
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Murder In The Medici Court
27 July 2026In Medici Florence there were two ways of maintaining power - one was money and the other was murder. Isabella de’ Medici was the believed...
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Hollywood’s Odyssey: The Historians' Verdict
26 July 2026Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film Odyssey brings Homer’s epic roaring back to life and Tristan Hughes and Dr. Emily Hauser are here to...
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