The British Empire

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Heaven's Command

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Pax Britannica

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The Great Siege of Malta: The History of the Battle for the Mediterranean Island Between the Ottoman Empire and Knights Hospitaller

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The Emperor Charlemagne

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To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Changed the Modern World

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Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate

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The Island Race

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Never Surrender: Winston Churchill and Britain's Decision to Fight Nazi Germany in the Fateful Summer of 1940

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The War of the Spanish Succession: The History of the Conflict Between the Bourbons and Habsburgs that Engulfed Europe

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The Normans: From Raiders to Kings

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Monarchy: From the Middle Ages to Modernity

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The Battle of Grunwald: The History and Legacy of the the Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War's Decisive Battle

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History Revealed: Cromwell's Last Battle: Episode 40

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Empire and Jihad: The Anglo-Arab Wars of 1870-1920

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King Arthur's Wars: The Anglo-Saxon Conquest of England

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Crown and Country: A History of England through the Monarchy

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Anglo-Saxons: A Captivating Guide to the People Who Inhabited Great Britain from the Early Middle Ages to the Norman Conquest of England

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How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800

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1494: How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half

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Farewell the Trumpets

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History of the Netherlands: The Dutch Wars, Wealth, Navy, Trade, and Culture

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Pandora's Box: A History of the First World War

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Russia: The Story of War

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The Summer of 1940: The History of the Months that Decided the Fate of Europe in World War II

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Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West

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Germany: A History

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The Hundred Years War: A People's History

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Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918

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The East India Company: The History of the British Empire's Most Famous Mercantile Company

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The British Empire: A Captivating Guide to the Largest Empire in History and its Impact on the Age of Discovery, Transatlantic Slave Trade, the Americas, India, World War 1 and more

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Nazi Hunting: A Love Story: The husband and wife who, for six decades and counting, have made catching war criminals the family business

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The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

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Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence

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The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

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Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words

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The Teutonic Knights: A Military History

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The War on the West

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Our Hideous Progeny: A Novel

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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

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Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

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The Professor and The Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

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Iron, Fire and Ice: The Real History that Inspired Game of Thrones

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: with Pearl and Sir Orfeo

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Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of American Cemeteries

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The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

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The Ghost Map

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Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family

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Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

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Summary: The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann: Key Takeaways, Summary & Analysis Included

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Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter: From the Battle for Moscow to Hitler's Bunker

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The Templars: The History and the Myth: From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons

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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

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The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England: 400 – 1066

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Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law

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Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine

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Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France

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Project MK-Ultra: The History of the CIA’s Controversial Human Experimentation Program

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We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

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Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert

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The Zulu Nation's Rise and Fall: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and fall of the Zulu Nation.

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51.1 Thirty Years War 1618-48, Background: The 17th century was one of the most bloody of European history. The Thirty Years War in particular is notorious for the sustained carnage and destruction it caused, and still burns in German memory as the most bloody period in their history before the...

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Antwerp: city of innovation & intrigue: In the 16th century, Antwerp was a global centre of trade, talked about around the world. Michael Pye considers its rise and bloody fall

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The Child Soldiers of WWI: After the outbreak of WWI, boys as young as twelve were caught up in a wave of patriotism & volunteered to serve. They fought in some of the bloodiest battles of the war, fighting at Ypres, the Somme & Gallipoli. Richard van Emden tells Dan the...

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Operation Barbarossa: On 22 June 1941 Hitler unleashed Operation Barbarossa the biggest military operation in human history. Author & broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby exposes the human cost of a conflict that was unprecedented in its scale & savagery.

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Alexander the Great’s Corpse and the Greatest Heist in History: Alexander the Great is one of the most famous generals and empire builders in history, but the story of his death is almost as remarkable as his life. Tristan Hughes joins Dan to tell the almost unbelievable tale of what happened after Alexander died.

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The Rise of Oliver Cromwell: Oliver Cromwell is the only English commoner to become head of state & is one of the most remarkable & controversial figures in history. Professor Ronald Hutton gives Dan an insight into this complicated & impressive figure.

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The Fall of Singapore: 80th Anniversary: The Fall of Singapore to the Japanese Army took place in the South-East Asian theatre of the Pacific War, with fighting in Singapore lasting through 8 to 15 February 1942. Nicknamed the “Gibraltar of the East,” Singapore was the foremost British milita...

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Indo-European, Migration, and the Corded Ware Culture

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Bismarck: Melvyn Bragg discusses the original Iron Chancellor, Otto Von Bismarck.

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An Anglo-Saxon warlord: Gabor Thomas, who directed the excavation, discusses the discovery of the ‘Marlow Warlord’.

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Voices of Waterloo: 206 years ago today, 60,000 men were slaughtered in the Battle of Waterloo. Napoleon Bonaparte's French army was finally defeated by an almighty coalition of troops from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Hanover, Brunswick & Nassau.

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The Cold War battle for Berlin: Giles Milton reveals how the German capital became the frontline in a bitter diplomatic conflict between the western Allies and the Soviet Union in the wake of the Second World War.

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Greatest Heist in History: The Crown Jewels and Thomas Blood: On the 9th May 1671, Thomas Blood led his co-conspirators in a daring bid to steal the crown jewels from the Tower of London. T Through a combination of trickery, guile and violence he was able to make off with the most important treasures in the kingdom.

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The Suez Crisis: everything you wanted to know: Alex von Tunzelmann responds to your questions on the 1956 Suez Crisis: a diplomatic debacle that dealt a serious blow to Britain’s standing in the postwar world.

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Robespierre’s brutal downfall: Colin Jones tells the story of Maximilien Robespierre’s fall from power – a dramatic 24 hours that ended with the revolutionary titan facing the guillotine

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Episode 321 - The Baltic Crusades: The Lithuanian Conflict XXVI - The End

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The end of the Cold War and British culture: Professor Robert Service describes how the leaders of the United States and Soviet Union – Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev – brought about a dramatic change in east-west relations. Meanwhile, historian Dominic Sandbrook talks to us about his new BB...

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Sarajevo: Nationalism: Exactly 100 years ago a shot rang out in Sarajevo which set the world on a path to war

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Consequences of the Industrial Revolution: Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the influence of the Industrial Revolution.

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

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Bob Moriarty: Covid & Ukraine are the Greatest Propaganda Campaigns of our Lifetime: Bob Moriarty discusses Ukraine as the dumbest war he’s ever seen and how Kiev has lost. Covid and Ukraine are the two greatest propaganda campaigns he’s seen in his lifetime. It’s all to do with control and he believes it’s all going to fail because ev...

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What Will Become of Syria in 2023? Joby Warrick on the Future of a Catastrophe: JIn this KEEN ON episode, Andrew talks to the Washington Post's Pulitzer prize winning journalist and Syria expert Toby Warrick on the chances for a peaceful solution to the Syrian civil war in 2023.

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#12 - E. Zhou 1: The Shattered Empire: King You of Zhou lays headless, the capital a smouldering ruin, and royal authority utterly destroyed. Regional lords exploit the chaos at hand to expand their own domains - and at times declare their own kingdoms - while the new, toothless Eastern Zh...

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Episode 68: Rebels With a Cause: It may come as a surprise that William the Conqueror embraced English after the Norman Conquest.  He also maintained much of the existing Anglo-Saxon bureaucracy. Had William continued those policies, the English language would be very different today....

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Medieval masterclass 3: Rebirth 1216-1347: Dan Jones charts the rise of the Mongols in the twelfth century – a sharp and hideously brutal episode, in which an eastern empire achieved fleeting domination over half the world, at the cost of millions of lives.

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67.1 Crimean War 1853 - Background

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1.1- The Kingdoms of Charles Stuart: In 1625 Charles Stuart became king of England, Scotland and Ireland. His relationship with Parliament immediately got off on the wrong foot.

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Espionage history: everything you wanted to know: Michael Goodman tackles listener questions and popular search queries on the history of spying and intelligence.

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St Bartholomew's Day Massacre: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the infamous St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in 1572.