Froissart's Chronicles—Excerpts: From The Great Wars of England and France

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The Emperor Charlemagne

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

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The Hundred Years War: A People's History

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King of the North Wind: The Life of Henry II in Five Acts

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The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the Present: A Narrative History

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King John: Treachery and Tyranny in Medieval England: the Road to Magna Carta

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The First Italian War of Independence: The History and Legacy of the Revolutions that Started the Process of Italy’s Unification

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?thelfl?d: The Lady of the Mercians

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The Black Prince: England's Greatest Medieval Warrior

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The Normans: From Raiders to Kings

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Command: Henry V

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The Demon's Brood: A History of the Plantagenet Dynasty

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Meet the Georgians: Epic Tales from Britain’s Wildest Century

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Medieval Mysteries: The History Behind the Myths of the Middle Ages

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Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England

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Medieval Maritime Warfare

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The Song of Roland

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Beowulf

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The Norman Conquest in English History: Volume I: A Broken Chain?

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Yvain, or the Knight with the Lion

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The Annals of Tacitus: Excerpts

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The Last Kings of Macedonia and the Triumph of Rome

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Annals

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Four Arthurian Romances

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An Alternative History of Britain: The Anglo-Saxon Age

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The Song of Roland

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The Knyghte's Tale

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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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An Alternative History of Britain: Normans and Early Plantagenets

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Lost Fatherland: Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939

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The Korean War: A History

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JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters

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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

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The Secret History of the World

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The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living

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

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Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

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The Book of Five Rings

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All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel

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Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World

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Demon Copperhead: A Novel

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

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Mary Magdalene: Women, the Church, and the Great Deception

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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

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Small Mercies: A Novel

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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The First Complete, Unexpurgated Text

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The Overstory

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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Razorblade Tears: A Novel

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The Endurance

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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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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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The Restaurant: A History of Eating Out

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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

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The Story of Art Without Men

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The Second Barons' War: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Simon de Montfort's fatal struggle with Henry III's forces

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014: To the Strongest - The King is Dead, Long Live the...Kings?: The first episode in a series covering the Wars o…

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Virgil

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Episode 42: Beowulf and Other Viking Ancestors: The Viking-era states of Denmark, Sweden and Norway emerged from several North Germanic tribes in Scandinavia.  These tribes also included the Geats who were prominently featured in Beowulf.  In this episode,

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09.1 The Battle of Tours 732 AD: The Franks of Charles Martel vs Islamic Umayyad Caliphate. From the mid seventh century the Muslim armies conquered lands from Spain to Persia forming a powerful new world empire. In 732 AD a large Muslim raiding party in southern France was confronted...

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1.15- The Good Old Cause: Oliver Cromwell died on September 3, 1658. His son and heir Richard was iunable to hold the Protectorate together. 

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The Picts: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss history and culture of the Picts.

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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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13.3 The Battle of Civitate 1053 AD, Part 3: The Normans arrive in Italy first as pilgrims on their way to the Holy Land, then as mercenaries. It is not long before they begin to acquire territories and titles on the peninsula in their own right. www.historyeurope.net

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16.1 Fall of Toledo 1085, Part 1, Medieval Spain: The History of early medieval Spain from the Islamic conquest in 711 to the establishment of the magnificent Caliphate of Cordoba, and the first successful Christian resistance which will ultimately lead to the reconquest, or Reconquista, of the...

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Saint Cuthbert: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life of one of England's most revered saints.

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The Mystery of the Ninth Legion: The legions of Rome were the nucleus of Rome’s military might for centuries. Yet of these legions there was one whose end is shrouded in mystery: the Ninth Legion. So what might have happened to this legion?

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Napoleon: the insecure emperor: Historian Adam Zamoyski, author of a new biography of Napoleon, offers his views on the iconic French leader, exploring how his stellar career was driven by insecurities

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The Song of Roland: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a masterpiece of French epic poetry from the 12th century.

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Vikings in Poland: What kind of presence did the Vikings have in Poland? And what was the connection between the region and King Harald Bluetooth?

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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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​​Children of the Norman Conquest: Eleanor Parker speaks about young people whose lives were fundamentally altered by the Norman Conquest of 1066

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Jason M. Baxter, "The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind" (InterVarsity, 2022): An interview with Jason M. Baxter

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History Extra podcast - September 2007: Professor Harry Gelber looks back over China's long history, Historical biographer Alison Weir and author and historian Tracy Borman tell the stories of two royal mistresses.

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'Killing for the Roman Republic': In 281/280 BC, the Hellenistic King Pyrrhus ventured to southern Italy to aid the Italiote-Greek city of Tarentum against a rising power based in central Italy. This enemy was the Romans. Over the next 150 years this civilisation would rise to become t...

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The Crécy Campaign (with Dan Jones)

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The Armenian Genocide: Death Marches

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Le Morte d'Arthur: Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Malory's epic medieval tale Le Morte d'Arthur.

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13.1 The Battle of Civitate 1053 AD, Part 1: During the next four podcasts I will tell the history of Italy from between the fall of Rome up until 1053, the year of an important battle between Pope Leo IX and Norman invaders of Italy. These centuries witnessed a long struggle for power between...

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Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudors: Nicola Tallis discusses Margaret Beaufort who played a key role in the Wars of the Roses and whose son, Henry VII, began the Tudor dynasty. Historyextra.com/podcast

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The Battle of Thermopylae: 2,499 years ago the Persian 'Great King' Xerxes launched history's largest amphibious invasion of Europe before D-Day. Accompanied by a huge army and navy he crossed the Hellespont (modern day Dardanelles), intent on punishing the city-s...

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The Temperance Movement: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the enthusiasm in Britain for abstaining from alcohol.

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010 Religion and Panhellenism: In this episode, we discuss the philosophy behind early Greek religion that was formalized in writing by Homer and Hesiod; the rituals performed when the Greeks worshipped their deities; the evidence for the earliest sanctuaries in the 8th...

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Benjamin Franklin: Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Benjamin Franklin.

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Ireland and the Viking World: Episode 3 is a whistle stop tour through the Viking World visiting places from Baghdad to Newfoundland explaining how the Vikings connected these far flung places to Ireland. In this episode we also see the first Africans arrive in Ireland in the 9th c...