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History TV and radio in the UK: what’s on our screens this week?

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Pod Martin Williams WL

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The Sahara: a green and pleasant land . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Painting of the Battle of Blenheim

The battle of Blenheim: how did the Duke of Marlborough triumph on the Danube?

Weekly history quiz from the team at HistoryExtra

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Quiz of the week Which athlete won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics?

Youths throw stones at the Royal Ulster Constabulary in the Catholic Bogside area

Why we should remember… The battle of the Bogside

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Episode 6 Secrets of the pharaoh's mummy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portraits of William III and Mary II, the only joint sovereigns in British history

Your guide to William and Mary, the only joint sovereigns in British history

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Pod Leanda de Lisle WL

Is Queen Henrietta Maria’s rotten reputation deserved? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian Leanda de Lisle photographed at her home with her dog Millie

Leanda de Lisle “Henrietta Maria has been looked at far too much through the male gaze”

Reverend Spencer Parsons, head of the Chicago branch of the Clergy Consultation Service (CCS), an interfaith group dedicated to helping women obtain abortions before 'Roe v Wade'

The American clergy who helped women get abortions before Roe v Wade

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Measurement: an unexpected history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Richard Nixon at the White House with his family following his resignation as president, 9 August 1974. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Richard Nixon’s final address: the day the president departed the White House

Pompey flees after the battle of Pharsalus

The battle of Pharsalus: how Julius Caesar defeated Pompey

Holbein's portrait of Edward VI

Edward VI Why the forgotten Tudor king had the makings of a monster