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Have you ever imagined travelling back in time to visit the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? To walk up the stairs of the Hanging Gardens that the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar built for his wife Amytis? Or to stand in … Continued
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Alfred the Great’s Viking Wars: Inside the Anglo-Saxon Fight to Save England
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Ravenser Odd: A Medieval Pirate Town Swallowed by the Sea
With royal approval Ravenser Odd’s Medieval merchants prowled the Humber as pirates… and paid the price
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Michael Wood on Athelstan’s ‘Great War’ to Unite Anglo-Saxon England
Historian and broadcaster Michael Wood reveals how Alfred the Great’s grandson won a huge war to unify England
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Battle of Worcester: Charles Spencer on Cromwell’s “Crowning Glory”
Historian Charles Spencer reveals Oliver Cromwell’s final military triumph that later inspired future American presidents
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The Birth of the Victorian Police: Drunks, Riots and a Steady Income
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How Cromwell’s Christmas Ban Was Enforced… or Not
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Royal African Company: How the Stuarts Birthed Britain’s Slave Trade
Charles II and James, Duke of York founded a trading company that lasted a mere 35 years but left a shocking legacy
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The Jadotville Medal: Ireland Honours the “Valiant Defence” of 1961
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PBS America presents a powerful new 18-hour documentary film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
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8 Greatest British Commando Missions of World War 2
From St Nazaire to Colossus, discover 8 of the most daring British Commando operations of World War II
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The Real Siege of Jadotville Part III: Veteran Tony Dykes on the Fight for Elisabethville
Tony Dykes remembers surviving not just the heroic siege but also an intense battle in the capital of Katanga
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How the Bloody ‘May Coup’ Set Serbia on the Path to World War I
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Joan of Arc on Trial: The Key to Understanding the Maid of Orléans
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From Matthew Hopkins to Salem: How the English Civil War Conjured Forth the Witch
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Murder, Money and a Town Under Siege
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