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Penal transportation to Australia: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
From criminal sentencing to colonial settlement, Nancy Cushing answers questions on the transportation of British convicts to Australia
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The SAS in WW2: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Joshua Levine tackles listener questions about the origins of Britain’s most famous special forces unit
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Mountaineering on Everest: everything you want to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Marking the 70th anniversary of the first Everest summit, Jonathan Westaway answers listener questions on the history of expeditions on the mountain
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Chartism: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Joan Allen answers listener questions on the working-class mass campaign for political reform
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Britain in the 1990s: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Alwyn Turner answers listener questions on British history in the decade of Major, Blair and Britpop
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Goths: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Peter Heather answers listener questions about the ancient Germanic tribes that shared a frontier with the Roman empire
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Westminster Abbey: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
David Carpenter answers listener questions on the history of Westminster Abbey, which has hosted royal coronations since the Middle Ages
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Crusader states: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Nicholas Morton charts the rise and fall of the Middle Eastern regions held by the Franks in 12th and 13th centuries
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Russian tsars: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Simon Sebag Montefiore answers listener questions about the history of imperial Russia’s formidable rulers
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Life in the trenches: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
From daily routine and diet to warfare and survival, Peter Hart answers listener questions about life on the frontline during the First World War
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British castles: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Marc Morris answers listener questions on the history of British castles – from the motte and bailey structures of William the Conqueror to the great stone fortresses of Edward I
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The Seven Years’ War: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Jeremy Black responds to listener questions on the 18th-century conflict that convulsed the globe and helped turn Britain into a world superpower
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Paganism: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Ronald Hutton answers listener questions on the long history of paganism
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Britain’s WW2 home front: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Dan Todman answers your top questions surrounding Britain’s Second World War home front, from evacuees and black market deals to sheltering from bombs in the London underground
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Medieval women: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Eleanor Janega busts popular myths surrounding women in the Middle Ages, revealing how society was more open-minded than we might initially expect
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Medieval peasants: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Professor Christopher Dyer answers listener questions about the daily life of medieval peasants, from diets and dentistry to leisure and life expectancy
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Interwar Britain: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Matt Houlbrook answers listener questions about British life in the 1920s and 1930s
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The Romantics: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Daisy Hay answers listener questions on the rebellious literary movement whose members’ lives were as unconventional as their art
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Prehistoric cave art: everything you want to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Paul Pettitt answers listener questions on what cave art can reveal about the palaeolithic era
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Railway history: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Christian Wolmar answers listener questions on the history of the railways, from industrial innovation and early rail journeys to the transformative nature of train travel
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The history of atheism: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Alec Ryrie responds to your questions on the history of unbelief – from ancient atheist accusations to Reformation sceptics
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Jane Austen’s England: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
From her relationship with royals to Regency attitudes towards female writers, Lizzie Rogers answers listener questions on the world in which Jane Austen wrote
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Life under Cromwell: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Ronald Hutton answers listener questions on one of the most turbulent periods in British history – Cromwell’s Protectorate
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The history of alcohol: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
From the world’s oldest beer to Britain’s deadly “gin craze”, Phil Withington answers listener questions on the long and impactful history of alcohol