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HistoryExtra Long Reads — 147 episodes

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Rome's people power

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The 'Iron Curtain' speech: why Churchill poked the Russian bear

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Anne Boleyn’s image problem

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Mob rule: the rise of the mafia

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What Shakespearean food reveals about early modern England

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A Victorian murder mystery

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How empires end

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Why Britain turned its back on the goose step

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1066: not just the Norman Conquest

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Medieval England’s terror of the living dead

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How the SAS reinvented itself after WW2

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How the Vikings menaced the Mediterranean

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Victorian murders most female

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The bizarre beginnings of the Winter Olympics

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Air raids and arias: Britain's WW2 operatic obsession

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How many Bayeux Tapestries were there?

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Julius Caesar: he came, he saw, he crucified pirates...?

18

Margaret Beaufort: schemer or opportunist?

19

How Spain became a democracy

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Beyond Jane Austen

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Santa Claus vs Father Christmas

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WW2's U-boat war: a theatre of hate?

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Doctor, doctor: remarkable medieval medical cures

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Spectral beasts and hounds from hell

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The slippery truth of the Dreyfus Affair

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1066: who was the rightful king?

27

Carthage: the making of Rome's monster

28

Treachery, deceit and the death of the Tudor dynasty

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The Assassins: a reign of terror

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Victoria's secret love affair

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Æthelstan: England's colossus

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Hiroshima's atomic plague

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The sinister secrets of Samuel Pepys

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Horses: medieval war machines

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Victorian boxing sensations

36

Mary of Modena: a queen in the eye of a storm

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Art deco: designs for life

38

Elizabeth I's forbidden love

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Swings and roundabouts: a history of British playgrounds

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Julius Caesar's funeral drama

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Live Aid at 40

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Inside the Luftwaffe during the battle of Britain

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Spiked drinks, counterfeit coins and the lodgers from hell

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The Ambassadors: painting on the precipice

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The women who shaped Malcolm X

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Spartacus: Rome's worst nightmare

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Scotland's season of the witch

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Why the Great Famine devastated Ireland

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Why the ancient Egyptians worshipped wine

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Matchless monsters: female murderers in early modern Britain

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Richard III's remains: how science identified the king in the car park

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Josephine Baker: dancer, activist, spy

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Was Charles I a tyrant?

54

VE Day: was it really one big party?

55

Dangerous delights: Victorian Britain's cocaine habit

56

Mercia: the lost kingdom

57

Did Ronald Reagan 'make America great again'?

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Fingers, frogs and fairies: fortune telling in early modern Britain

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WW2 evacuees: when Britain escaped to the country

60

500,000 years of African history

61

Henry III and the Magna Carta that mattered

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Marco Polo's adventures: lands of make believe?

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The gunpowder plot: how to build a radical

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The battle of Monte Cassino: a hill to die on

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Why sex was a sin in the Middle Ages

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Ptolemy XII: Cleopatra's father from hell

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Keep smiling: the history of happiness

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Winston Churchill: still the greatest?

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Influencers of the medieval age

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Thomas Cromwell: hero to zero

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Introducing History's Greatest Scandals | New Podcast

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Sarah Biffin: extraordinary artist

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Lord Lucan: what really happened to the missing earl?

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Gladiators: tales from the Roman arena

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Audacious lady swindlers, con-women and hustlers

76

Edward of Warwick: the other prince in the tower

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Mysterious mummification myths

78

Henry V's brutal youth

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Pigs in the medieval city

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How we found our bearings: the origins of the four compass points

81

Reading the runes: uncovering the everyday lives of the Vikings

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Tales from history's toilets

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Medieval England's political miracle

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Dudley Clarke: the spy who hoodwinked Hitler

85

Henry VII: the king they couldn't kill

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The suffragettes: masters of PR

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Robert the Bruce: the man, the myth, the murderer

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Oliver Cromwell's postal spies

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Dark knights and crusading criminals

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Women of the Greco-Persian Wars

91

Oradour-sur-Glane: one of WW2's most infamous massacres

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From Tudor to Stuart: a brand new era?

93

The madcap Paris Olympics: how chaos nearly derailed the 1900 Games

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The West Africa Squadron: Britain's war on slave ships

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Club AD 130: a Roman holiday

96

Airborne assault: the spearhead of the D-Day invasion

97

The women behind Henry VIII's queens

98

The Normandy campaign's forgotten naval heroes

99

Victorian scandals: sex, sadism & sugared death

100

Roman slaves: the hidden lives of the empire's invisible labour force

101

Cumbria: the forgotten Anglo-Saxon kingdom

102

Emily Anderson: codebreaking pioneer

103

1924's British Empire Exhibition: the empire’s last hurrah?

104

Beastly Victorians: battling animal abuse in the 19th century

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The battle of Meggido: ancient Egypt at war

106

WW1's Eastern Front: the forgotten theatre of war?

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Life beyond the margins: female diarists through time

108

Knights! Camera! Action!: the Middle Ages on film

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From the Knights Templar to the killing of JFK: the enduring power of conspiracy theories

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Mary vs Elizabeth: sisters at war

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Alexandria: the ancient world's greatest city

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The war on grey squirrels

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Medieval breastfeeding: an act of love

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Death and alcohol on Victorian canals

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Wonderlust: exploring the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

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Labour’s leap to power

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Shakespeare: playing with the past

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The Bloomsbury Group: the new radicals

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Lady Killers: what murder scandals reveal about Victorian society

120

The long death of the Roman Republic

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Walter Cowan: Britain's oldest commando

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Matilda of Scotland: the queen behind the veil

123

The Boston Tea Party

124

Race across the Atlantic: 1969's wackiest escapade

125

The A to B of medieval travel

126

The Munich beer hall putsch: a botched coup?

127

Cartoon Century: Disney at 100

128

The crusade against the odds

129

The hellish WW2 battle for Italy

130

The siege of Calais: a medieval Stalingrad?

131

Empire on the brink

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Anne Boleyn’s fatal French connection

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Eleanor Glanville: butterfly collector

134

Dick Whittington: London’s golden boy

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Unearthing Pompeii’s streets

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Templars on trial

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8 scandals that rocked Georgian Britain

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Tudor traders: keep calm and ignore the Armada

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Bannockburn: Scotland’s greatest victory

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Could WW1 have ended in 1916?

141

Pax Romana: peace at the point of a sword

142

Roger Mortimer: king of folly

143

Britain’s love affair with the NHS

144

The original rogue heroes of the SAS

145

Ramesses II: the greatest pharaoh?

146

The forgotten history of Windrush

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