History
Historical themes, events and key individuals from Akhenaten to Xenophon.
Margaret Beaufort
How one woman helped her son survive the Wars of the Roses to become the first Tudor king.
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The Columbian Exchange
The impact of the spread of animals, crops and diseases between continents after 1492
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The Code of Hammurabi
The impact of the wide-ranging laws of Hammurabi, King of Babylon from 4,000 years ago.
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The Roman Arena
Misha Glenny and guests discuss the origins and harsh realities of the gladiator life.
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Paul von Hindenburg
How the cult of personality around this German WWI figurehead helped usher in Hitler.
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The Korean Empire
How Korea embraced modernisation at the end of the 19th Century in a bid for independence.
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The Battle of Clontarf
Brian Boru's celebrated defeat of Hiberno-Norse forces and allies outside Dublin in 1014.
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The Gracchi
Why two brothers became linked to the fall of the Roman Republic and rise of the emperors.
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Cyrus the Great
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great.
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Catherine of Aragon
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman so important that two Tudor royals married her.
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The Battle of Valmy
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the day in 1792 when the French Revolution risked defeat.
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Plutarch's Parallel Lives
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential Greek biographer and his main work
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The Hanoverian Succession
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the politics that led to the coronation of George I.
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The Antikythera Mechanism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mysterious ancient Greek astronomical computer.
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The Venetian Empire
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and eventual decline of the Venetian Empire.
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The Haymarket Affair
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1886 bombing in Chicago amid violent labour conflict.
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Benjamin Disraeli
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most prominent Victorian politicians.
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The Orkneyinga Saga
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Saga of the Earls of Orkney up to the 13th century.
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Marsilius of Padua
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great figures in the history of political ideas
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Empress Dowager Cixi
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who dominated China's court for almost 50 years.
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Napoleon's Hundred Days
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Napoleon Bonaparte's surprise coup in 1815 before Waterloo
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Julian the Apostate
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the emperor who aimed to return Christian Rome to paganism
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The Mokrani Revolt
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a major Algerian uprising against French rule in 1871.
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The Sack of Rome 1527
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Holy Roman Emperor's army's notorious attack on Romans
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