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We are a slightly mad, always fun podcast bringing you all the History you love and a lot that you didn‘t know you‘d love until you heard it here! Recommended by BBC Radio, and presented by acclaimed historian Alexandra Churchill, with Alina Nowobilska, Chris Sams and the rest of the awesome team.
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Saturday Dec 25, 2021
Saturday Dec 25, 2021
For this festive special, Charles Dickens's great great great granddaughter Lucinda Hawksley joins us to talk all about his famous Christmas stories and his experience of Christmas throughout his life.
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Friday Dec 24, 2021
Friday Dec 24, 2021
The regulars convene to open their Christmas presents and debate the greatest Christmas story in history. Yippie-kay-yay.
Wednesday Dec 22, 2021
Wednesday Dec 22, 2021
Matt Lewis joins us to some cracking revelations about the perennial mystery of the Princes in the Tower and their evil uncle, Richard III.
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Monday Dec 20, 2021
Monday Dec 20, 2021
Nina Harkrader joins us to talk all about the architecture and social history of a very Victorian institution.
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Friday Dec 17, 2021
Friday Dec 17, 2021
Tom Asch joins us to discuss the 'long 11th Century', including 1066, the Vikings, and everything in between.
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
LJ Trafford joins us to talk all about sex and sexuality in Ancient Rome.
Monday Dec 13, 2021
Monday Dec 13, 2021
Chris Peers joins us for a blow by blow walkthrough of these colonial clashes in 1879.
Friday Dec 10, 2021
Friday Dec 10, 2021
To mark this year's ceremony, Kit Chapman joins us to talk all about the history of the Nobel prize, and explain why it's not all it's cracked up to be.
Wednesday Dec 08, 2021
Wednesday Dec 08, 2021
We can look at how people thought and how they acted, but Hannah Platts joins us to talk about what it felt like to be a Roman.
Monday Dec 06, 2021
Monday Dec 06, 2021
Amanda Thomas joins us to talk all about non-conformity and how it revolutionised things like education and the role of women in Britain.