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Tea history: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Jane Pettigrew charts the extraordinarily long history of one of the world's most popular hot drinks
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Communism: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Maurice J Casey answers listeners' questions about the revolutionary ideology, its key thinkers and its impact on modern history
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The Stuarts: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Anna Keay answers listener questions on the dynasty that dominated Britain in the turbulent 17th century
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The Hittites: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Mark Weeden answers listener questions about the ancient civilisation whose existence was almost completely forgotten for three millennia
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Medieval torture: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Dr Hannah Skoda answers listener questions about the use of torture in the Middle Ages
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Prehistoric stone circles: everything you want to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Vicki Cummings answers listener questions on prehistoric stone circles, from how they were built to what they were for
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The Abbasid caliphate: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Hugh Kennedy answers listener questions on the multicultural medieval caliphate that stretched from Tunisia to the frontiers of India
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The history of migration: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Ian Goldin answers listener questions about the history of migration, from the earliest examples to upheavals caused by colonialism and war
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The Spanish Inquisition: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Giles Tremlett answers listener questions about the Spanish Inquisition, to uncover the real history behind the sinister and bloodthirsty 'Black Legend' of Spain
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Servants: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Lucy Lethbridge answers listener questions on the daily realities of domestic service in the era of Downton Abbey and beyond
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Victorian crime and punishment: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Drew Gray tackles listener question on crime, courts, policing, punishments and prisons in 19th-century Britain
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Chocolate history: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Food historian Emma Kay ranges across the centuries and the globe to explore the backstory of one of the world's favourite treats
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The history of museums: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth reveals how museums have evolved over the centuries – and what their collections can reveal about the people who created them
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Ancient Greek theatre: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Sarah Nooter answers listener questions on the world of ancient Greek theatre, from dramatic tragedies and side-splitting comedies to the rip-roaring ride of the satyr plays
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Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Joanna Story answers listener questions about the Anglo-Saxon kings and kingdoms
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The abolition of the Transatlantic slave trade: everything you want to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Suzanne Schwarz answers your key questions about the abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
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WW1's eastern front: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Nick Lloyd answers listener questions on Germany and Austria-Hungary's bloody clash with the Russian empire from 1914–18
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The Capetians: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Justine Firnhaber-Baker answers listener questions on the long-standing and influential medieval French dynasty
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British Redcoats: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Saul David answers listener questions on the evolution of the British Army from the Civil War to the Victorian era
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Alcatraz: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Ashley Rubin answers listener questions on the infamous American prison known for its escape attempts
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Chivalry: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Lydia Zeldenrust answers listener questions on the idealised code of knightly conduct that arose during the medieval era
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Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
From the hanging gardens of Babylon to the lighthouse of Alexandria, Bettany Hughes answers listener questions on the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
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Medieval popes: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Brett Whalen answers popular questions on the medieval papacy, from the exploits of anti-popes to an infamous trial of a pope's corpse
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1970s Britain: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Alwyn Turner traces the history of Britain in the 1970s – from politics to the punk movement