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Medieval Life and Death – Lecture Series

Catch up on our series of lectures on life and death in the Middle Ages, first delivered by expert historians in 2020. Videos are available exclusively to HistoryExtra subscribers. Exclusively available to HistoryExtra subscribers

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Hannah Skoda Violence in the Middle Ages . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Chris Woolgar Medieval food . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Elma Brenner Medieval disease and medicine . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Sally Dixon-Smith Medieval love and marriage . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Individual virtual talks

Catch up on individual historical lectures from expert historians, exclusively available for HistoryExtra subscribers

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Malcolm Gaskill The Ruin of All Witches . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ronald Hutton Oliver Cromwell: Saint or Serpent? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Lecture Niall Ferguson on the politics of catastrophe . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Elinor Cleghorn The History of Unwell Women . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Samir Puri How Empires Shaped the World . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Fern Riddell Sex: Lessons from History . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Lewis and David Musgrove What's missing from the Bayeux Tapestry? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Cat Jarman History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Helen Carr The Red Prince: John of Gaunt, the Father of Monarchy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Kate Vigurs The women of SOE in WW2 France . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Nathen Amin Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Max Adams The First Kingdom: Britain in the Age of Arthur . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood The story of China . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Toby Wilkinson The rediscovery of Ancient Egypt . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Laurence Rees Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Margaret MacMillan Why are there wars? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Charles Spencer The White Ship . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Tom Licence Edward the Confessor and 1066 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Keith Lowe The trouble with historical monuments . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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