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We Are History — 113 episodes

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The 1960s - The advent of the permissive society

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The Painful History of Dentistry

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British Shops and Shopping Centres

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The Brighton Bomb – 1984

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The History of April Fool’s Day

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The Grand Tour

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The French Revolution

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The Story of Live Aid

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International Women’s Day

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The Glorious Revolution of 1688

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The Golden Age of Smuggling

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The Green Belt: Contentious countryside

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The Gunpowder Plot: He didn’t start the fire

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From Bits to Bots: A History of AI

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Nudity down the centuries

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The Zimmermann Telegram

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The Haitian Revolution - the slave rebellion that succeeded

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The Glamour Boys

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The Race for the Bomb

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Bonuscast: Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell answer your questions.

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The Legend of the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass

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The Story of Nancy Wake: The Mouse that ran rings around the Nazis

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The 1904 St Louis Olympics: A Marathon Event

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St Patrick and the Patriarchy: Women’s rights in Ireland

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Saucy Seaside Postcards - A Celebration of Great British Smut

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Great Fire of London: Burning down the house

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Navajo Code Talkers – America's secret WWII weapon

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Albania: Communism, capitalism, chaos

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The 1968 US Presidential Election: Rotting from the head down

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Radium: A toxic love affair

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Christmas Number Ones

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Mussolini - the rubbish war leader

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The Domestication of Dogs

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The Birth of the BBC

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The Stasi Poetry Circle - the East Germans secret police advancing socialism through verse

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The Fascist Who Switched Sides and Spied on the British Far Right

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The 60s Satire Boom

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The slow death of John Major’s government 1992-97

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The Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp

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Agent Sonya

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Richard III and the Princes in the Tower

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Maud West, the unlikely private investigator

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Victorian Anti-vaxxers

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The Great Exhibition 1851

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The Scottish Witch Panic

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Bill Clinton & Monica Lewinsky

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The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz, 1969-71

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MI9 - the secret agency helping British POWs

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Christopher Columbus, the man who didn't discover America

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The Rise of Fall of Robert Maxwell

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The Winter of Discontent 1978-9

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A History of Contraception

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The Thorpe Affair

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The Bay of Pigs - Cuba 1961

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The Campaign Against Women's Suffrage

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The Agapemonites - the Victorian religious love cult

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The Scopes Monkey Trial

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A History of Marriage

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The fall of Thatcher - 1990

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Elizabethan child actors

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The Abdication Crisis - 1936

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Operation Mincemeat - 1943

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Prohibition

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Zoo Wars

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Lesbian Pirates!?

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The Aids Crisis

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When Britain was a Republic 1649-60

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Celtic Britain v Roman Empire (away win)

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The Big Stink - 1858

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2020 (Thank God it's history)

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The History of Christmas

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1989 - Revolutions across Eastern Europe

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An Explicit History of Swearing

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A Thoroughly Researched History of Beer

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Murder at Road Hill House - 1860

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German Resistance to the Nazis

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The Battle of Hastings - 1066

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Sealand - the Essex family that declared independence from Britain

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The Bristol Bus Boycott - 1963

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The cult of Jack the Ripper

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Ireland 1916 - the Easter Rising

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Watergate

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The Origins of Homo Sapiens

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Eurovision

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Kim Il Sung and the creation of North Korea

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Harold Moody and the League of Coloured Peoples

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Stonehenge

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Tulip Fever - Amsterdam 1637; the first financial crash?

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Railway Mania

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Able Archer '83 - the Almost Nuclear Apocalypse

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The Nazi Occupation of the Channel Islands

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The Miners' Strike 1984-5

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The Rise and Fall of the Council House

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The Spanish Civil War

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Ethelred the Unready

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The British Invasion of Iceland 1940

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Boudica

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The Suez Crisis 1956

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The Siege of Paris 1870-71

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The Opium War

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Nuclear fall-out shelters

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McCarthyism and America's Red Scare

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'The Cycling Suffragettes'

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Sons of Africa - the black British who campaigned against slavery

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Mosley and the Blackshirts

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The Black Death

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Televangelism

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Spy Pigeons

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The 1975 Referendum on the Common Market

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Vlad the Impaler, the original 'Dracula'

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Nudism in East Germany

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The Profumo Scandal

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