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The First World War: The Eastern Front Explodes (Part 5)
Sep 05, 2025While the Western front was raging following the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, what was unfolding on the Eastern Front? Why was it an even bloodier and more brutal arena than the West? As A...
The First World War: The Massacre of the Innocents (Part 4)
Sep 03, 2025What happened at the crucial, bloody, Battle of Ypres in October 1914? How did the battle come about? Why did the Germans and the British fight each other so brutally and for so long to take Ypres? Wh...
The First World War: The Miracle on the Marne (Part 3)
Aug 31, 2025What extraordinary events saw the French - already on the brink of defeat - take on the formerly formidable German army in a remarkable counter-offensive on the 4th of September, in France, in a clash...
The First World War: The Battle of the Frontiers (Part 2)
Aug 27, 2025What was Britain's first military move following the outbreak of the First World War? Where did the French launch their initial attack on the Germans? Whose army was the biggest and best of all the pa...
The First World War: The Invasion of Belgium (Part 1)
Aug 24, 2025Following the declaration of war in 1914, how did the outbreak of the First World War unfold? What were the earliest military engagements of this terrible, totemic event? Who were its key political pl...
The Fight of the Century
Aug 20, 2025Why did two men - John Heenan and and Tom Sayers - illegally meet in a field in Hampshire, in 1860, to brutally fight one another, captivating Britain in the process? What can the fight tell us about ...
Mad Victorian Sport
Aug 17, 2025How and when was football invented, and what are the origins of football clubs? What is the connection between public hangings, highwaymen, and early sporting events? Which is the most historically im...
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Manhunt for the Killer (Part 2)
Aug 13, 2025How was President Abraham Lincoln murdered on Good Friday 1865, at Ford’s Theatre, just five days after Robert E. Lee’s surrender? Who was John Wilkes Booth, the racist actor with southern sympathies,...
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Death at the Theatre (Part 1)
Aug 10, 2025After passing the 13th amendment, in the closing weeks of the brutal American Civil War, what did president Abraham Lincoln - recently re-elected - do next to inflame his detractors? Crippled with gui...
Mary, Queen of Scots: Downfall (Part 6)
Aug 06, 2025Following the murder of her husband, Lord Darnley, how did Mary Queen of Scots - thought to have conspired for his death - navigate the most precarious situation of her young life so far? Would she ma...