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Rosa Parks

On the 1st of December, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. After taking her...

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How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Humanity

We think of our natural environment as a subset of history, like studying the history of warfare...

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Aphrodite: Goddess of Love

This episode contains graphic references. Aphrodite is the goddess of love and beauty in Greek...

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Spies in the Sky

Spy balloons are really blowing up right now. The US has shot down one confirmed Chinese balloon...

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The Tragedy of HMS Captain

As a crew of over 500 boarded HMS Captain in the autumn of 1870, none of them knew their fate was...

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Nicholas Said: The Extraordinary Life of a Traveller, Soldier and Translator

This is the remarkable story of Nicholas Said - born into a wealthy Muslim family in the ancient...

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Muppets Take Moscow!

Car bombings, assassinations and a military takeover: these are just some of the things American...

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Pre-historic Women

For years we've understood that in the prehistoric hunter-gather world, the men did the hunting...

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Dan, The Skeletons and The Battle of Waterloo

Dan Snow’s History Hit hits the road to Belgium and the Waterloo Battlefield to see the soldier’s...

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Medieval Leaders and Queens: Aethelfled, Hildegard & Jadwiga.

It's International Women's Day so what better way to celebrate than with the warrior queen who...

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The Real Casanova

Content Warning This episode contains adult themes and language that may not be suitable for...

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Writing Oblivions and The Murder of Charles I

It's 1660 and General Edward Whalley and his son-in-law board a ship bound for the New World....

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Sex

250 million years ago the armour-plated Placoderm fish invented the act of sex as we know it....

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The End of Stalingrad

Stalingrad is one of the most titanic and totemic battles of the Second World War. Millions were...

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Normans, Romans and Victorians: History of England's New Forest 

Where can you find an Iron Age fort, Roman kilns, trees built for Nelson's navy and the hunting...

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The Truth About Area 51

Fake moon landings, aliens and secret weapons; conspiracy theories about Area 51 abound but what...

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The USA & Pacification in the Vietnam War

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam. It was...

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Anne Frank's Life After Her Arrest

Anne Frank’s diary is one of the most famous accounts of the Jewish experience during the Second...

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Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu

The Three Musketeers paints a picture of King Louis XIII of France as a rather weak monarch...

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The Great British Dig

We think of archaeology as an exclusionary profession, one reserved for experts in the field. But...

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