History
Historical themes, events and key individuals from Akhenaten to Xenophon.
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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The Hanseatic League
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval trading network the Hanseatic League.
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Nefertiti
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and impact of ancient Egypt's best-known queen.
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Tiberius
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the man born in Republican Rome who became second Emperor.
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Marguerite de Navarre
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss writer and Renaissance queen Marguerite de Navarre.
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