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The Legacy of Rome

Rome has attracted aspiring conquerors and leaders for millennia, not just as a great metropolis,...

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Rise of the Tudors

Join Dan as he rollicks through the tumultuous life and rise to power of Henry Tudor, the man who...

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Secret Origins of the SAS

In 1974, a pioneer of the SAS and master of military deception, Dudley Clarke, passed away. His...

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Ivan the Terrible

The name Ivan the Terrible is synonymous with brutality and ruthlessness. While Western scholars...

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Charlie Chaplin

The Golden Age of Hollywood was a place of pioneers, storytellers, ideas, westward expansion,...

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How Brutish were our Ancestors?

Was life for our ancient ancestors brutish and short or did they exist as noble savages, free and...

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WWII Britain: The Home Guard's Silent Assassins

WWII Britain's Home Guard wasn't a bumbling dad's army but in fact included factions of highly...

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Chairman Mao

Leader of the Chinese Communist Party from 1949 until his death in 1976, Chairman Mao reshaped...

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Elizabeth I's War with Ireland

Queen Elizabeth I, Gloriana, victor over the Spanish and patron of the arts ushered in a Golden...

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The Ancient Greek Computer: The Antikythera Mechanism

In the recent Indiana Jones: The Dial of Destiny movie, the Antikythera Mechanism is used for...

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Battle of Gettysburg

The first three days of July 1863 saw the bloodiest single battle of the American Civil War. This...

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The Rise of the Taliban

Is it possible that the Taliban of today are more fanatical than before? American and Coalition...

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Scottish Clans

It is believed clans started to emerge in Scotland around 1100AD and were originally the...

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Archimedes and the Siege of Syracuse

Dan tells the story of Archimedes, the ancient Greek inventor whose weapons of war protected the...

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Surviving Hitler and Stalin

Lord Daniel Finkelstein recounts stories from his parents' remarkable lives. His mother Mirjam...

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Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan roughly translates to 'Universal Ruler', a fitting name for the most famous nomadic...

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Attila The Hun

Known to the Romans as the 'Scourge of God', Attila the Hun brought chaos to the world around...

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The Great Train Robbery

Did the "heist of the century" really happen the way the robbers say it did? In the summer of...

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Ragnar Lothbrok: Viking Legend

The ninth-century Danish king and warrior Ragnar Lothbrok became notorious again most recently...

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History's Greatest Commanders

In war, leadership matters. Poorly trained or outnumbered armies have often been led to victory...

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