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Pod Keith Lowe WL

How to tell the story of WW2 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Jim Downs WL

How slavery & empire shaped epidemiology . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Jane Ridley WL

George V: not so dull after all . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The man who made King Alfred great . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Benjamin Savill discusses the St Brice’s Day Massacre of 1002, in which Danes living in England were killed, apparently on royal orders. (Image by Getty Images)

The St Brice’s Day Massacre of 1002 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Mary Wellesley uncovers the hidden stories of the artisans and authors behind medieval manuscripts. (Image by Getty Images)

Medieval manuscript makers . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ranulph Fiennes uses his unique perspective as a polar explorer to reflect on the life and adventures of Ernest Shackleton. (Image by Getty Images)

Surviving hell on earth: Polar explorer Ranulph Fiennes on Shackleton . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Susan Williams discusses the United States’ covert programme to undermine the leaders of newly independent African nations in the 1950s and 1960s. (Image by Getty Images)

The CIA’s secret African missions . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Matt Lewis tells the story of Hereward the Wake, a shadowy rebel whose uprising rocked England’s Norman conquerors in the 1070s. (Image by Getty Images)

The rebel who defied William the Conqueror . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Tom Standage traces technological advances in transport, from the invention of the wheel to the rise of the car. (Image by Getty Images)

From chariots to e-scooters: transformations in transport . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Dr Sara Read explores women’s experience of pregnancy and childbirth in early modern England. (Image by Getty Images)

Giving birth in the 17th century . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Dr Souvik Naha reveals how the Victorians used cricket to export “British virtues” across the empire. (Image by Getty Images)

Cricket as a colonial weapon . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Professor Lea Ypi reflects on her childhood years, which witnessed the final years of communism in Albania and the fraught transition to capitalist democracy. (Image by Getty Images)

Living through the fall of communism . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Zazie Beetz and Jonathan Majors in the Netflix film The Harder They Fall (2021), directed by Jeymes Samuel. (Photo by Netflix–Overbrook Entertainment–Alamy)

Black cowboys on screen . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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From necromancy and the underworld to getting rid of troublesome spirits, Irving Finkel discusses ghost beliefs in ancient Mesopotamia. (Image by Getty Images)

Ghosts, necromancy & the underworld in ancient Mesopotamia . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.