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Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
Historian Dan Snow journeys across the globe to tell the stories of history's defining moments. From the Colosseum in Rome to the Great Wall of China, the battlefields of Waterloo to the Tomb of Tutankhamun, join Dan as he explores the how and why of the greatest monuments, battles, heroes, villains and events that…
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74%The Naval Revolution: Triumph and Disaster
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80%The Fall of the Ancient Maya
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75%The Rise of the Ancient Maya
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75%Was Caesar's invasion of Britain a disaster?
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75%The Blitz Beyond London
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75%A Short History of The Airport
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71%The Mycenaean World
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75%BONUS: The Complete Map of the Odyssey
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71%The Real St George and the Dragon
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66%The Real History Behind The Odyssey
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78%A Day in the Life of a Gladiator
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77%What Happens in The Odyssey?
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75%The Birth of America Explained
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69%Agrippina the Younger: Rome's Most Notorious Empress
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77%Life in the Trenches
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74%Spain vs Portugal: The Spice Race
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77%Why Did The Roman Empire Collapse?
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72%The Origins of the Tank
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77%Mary Beard on Ruling the Roman Empire
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61%Harald Hardrada
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63%The Rise of the Roman Empire
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75%The Great Fire of London
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76%SAS Hijacked A Fascist Train To Liberate A Concentration Camp
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78%The Rise and Fall of the Boleyns
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63%Anglo-Saxons vs Vikings: The Battle That Gave Birth To England
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74%The Rise and Fall of Venice
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77%The Seven Deadly Sins
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75%Investigating the Nazi Massacre at Rumbula
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69%How Did Japan Become A Superpower?
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79%The Scandalous Life of Lord Byron
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65%Bloody Mary
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79%The Black Prince
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69%The Assassination of Trotsky
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77%Churchill's Secret Army
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75%The Siege of Acre: The Last Battle of the Crusades
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68%Eleanor of Aquitaine
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69%The Knights Templar vs the Order of Assassins
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67%The Commanders: The Best of the Rest
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72%How and Why the Crusades Started
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61%The Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov
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68%The Real Peaky Blinders
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62%Japan's WWII Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
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71%The Rise of Putin and the 1999 Apartment Bombs
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78%Dwight D. Eisenhower
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76%The Battle of Gettysburg
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76%Can Air Power Alone Topple Governments?
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75%Bernard Montgomery
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73%Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson: A Royal Scandal
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77%Erwin Rommel
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81%The Forbidden City
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69%The Trial of Charles I
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72%Royal Siblings, Scandals and Crises
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73%The Peasants' Revolt
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66%The First Vikings in Iceland
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73%The Scandalous Private Life of Charles II
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79%The Great Famine
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61%The Ruthless Samurai Who Conquered Japan
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75%Whaling
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68%Joan of Arc Explained
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73%The Dambusters Raid Explained
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71%The Battle of Bosworth
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64%The Top Assassination Attempts on Hitler
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72%A History of Iran
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75%U.S. Interventions in Latin America and Beyond
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79%A history of (American) occupation in Greenland
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78%The Rise, Fall and Rise of the Taliban
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76%How Did Ancient Romans become Christians?
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69%What was the Hanseatic League?
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63%How Did the British Empire Build the Modern World?
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64%King Herod
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64%A History of Christmas Food
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66%The Origins of the Royal Navy
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60%How America Invaded Canada
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70%The Bombing of Guernica
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62%Sitting Bull and the Battle of Little Bighorn
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68%How to Survive the Age of Sail
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77%The Assassination of JFK
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73%John F. Kennedy: Myths vs Reality
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72%The Spanish Armada
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63%Nuremberg: The Trial of Göring
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71%The Black Death
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71%The Battle of Passchendaele
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60%Rome's African Emperor: Septimius Severus
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83%The First Day of the Somme
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76%Ancient Irish Funeral Traditions
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80%What Caused Europe's Witch Hysteria?
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70%Atatürk: Fall of the Ottoman Empire
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65%Elizabeth I: Evil or Genius?
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69%How to Survive in Renaissance England
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67%Richard II vs Henry IV
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71%How Did the Industrial Revolution Change the World?
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65%The Germans Who Rebelled Against the Nazis
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74%The Battle of Jutland
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75%Medieval Sex
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74%Alexandria
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78%The Spanish Civil War
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79%The Battle of Agincourt
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75%Magna Carta
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73%The First Trains
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75%The Battle of Hastings
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60%The Mongol Invasion of Europe
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72%Did the Trojan War Really Happen?
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64%Anne Boleyn: Myths vs Reality
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77%Emperor Augustus
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76%The Greatest Knight That Ever Lived: William the Marshal
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76%Rommel's Defeat in North Africa
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68%The Troubles Explained (Part 2)
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80%The Origins of The Troubles (Part 1)
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71%The Battle of Bannockburn
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77%Is Society About to Collapse?
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77%The Acropolis
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68%The Rise and Fall of Carthage
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74%The Tower of London
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65%Knossos
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68%Emperor Nero
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75%The Colosseum
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76%Napoleon in Paris
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64%Pompeii
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66%The Surrender of Japan
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69%Edinburgh Castle
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75%The Great Train Robbery
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77%Hiroshima: As It Happened
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63%Notre Dame
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69%5 Reasons the Allies Won the War
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66%Emperor Titus
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76%Churchill vs Attlee: The Election That Changed Britain
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82%Is James I an Underrated King?
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71%War of the Worlds: Orson Welles' Alien Invasion Hoax
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66%Pirates: The Pirate Hunts
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71%How did the Colonies win the American War of Independence?
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65%Christopher Wren
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73%Pirates: Barbary Corsairs & The Bombardment of Algiers
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83%Boudicca: Myths vs Reality
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74%Why Do Empires Fall?
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74%Pirates: Piracy in the South China Seas
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81%The Rise & Fall of Sparta
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70%The Seven Years War
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63%Pirates: Myths vs Reality
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71%Richard the Lionheart
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72%The Crystal Palace
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72%Civil War in the Holy Roman Empire
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70%The Mysteries of Easter Island
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78%The Battle of Waterloo
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76%Iran & Israel: Allies to Enemies
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66%How Did Humans Take Over the World?
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77%The Ultimate Mesopotamian Mystery
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66%How the Nazis Escaped Germany
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75%Julius Caesar
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67%Disasters in the Age of Discovery
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74%The Rise and Fall of the Assyrian Empire
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73%Why do India and Pakistan fight over Kashmir?
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76%How Did Genghis Khan Change the World?
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68%The Battle of Okinawa
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81%Captain Cook
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76%Mount Hiei: Home of Japan's Warrior Monks
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69%The Nazi Occupation of Jersey
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64%Why is Timbuktu Famous?
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76%The Glorious Revolution
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63%The Siege of Vienna
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68%The History of Alcatraz
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79%VE Day
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76%How did Andrew Jackson Change the U.S. Presidency?
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67%Germany After Hitler
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78%The Death of Hitler
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75%The Dreyfus Affair: The Spy Scandal that Shook France
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66%The Einstein Murders
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76%A History of Popes
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73%How Did the American Revolution Start?
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68%The Battle of Berlin with Sir Antony Beevor
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75%The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
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79%The Sinking of the Titanic
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73%The Red Army Surrounds Berlin
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73%The Great Tariff Battle
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70%Saint Petersburg: Putin's Hometown
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75%The Samurai
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69%Francis Drake (Part 2)
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77%Francis Drake (Part 1)
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65%THE LEADERS: Roosevelt
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82%Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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65%THE LEADERS: Hirohito
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71%The Rise & Fall of The Moors in Spain
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74%THE LEADERS: Stalin
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76%Babylon: The Most Important City of Antiquity
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69%THE LEADERS: Mussolini
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74%The Origins of Jim Crow
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71%The Sphinx
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78%THE LEADERS: Churchill
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68%D-day to Berlin: The Americans Cross the Rhine
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70%THE LEADERS: Hitler
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77%Why Do Humans Wage War?
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80%Mary, Queen of Scots
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66%Soho: London's Most Notorious Neighbourhood
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62%Dogs
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65%Josef Mengele
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74%Why Isn't Canada the 51st State?
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65%The Bombing of Dresden
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75%The Siege of Malta: Knights Hospitaller vs The Ottomans
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76%Iwo Jima: WWII in the Pacific
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77%Nostradamus
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62%2. The English Civil War: Roundheads vs Cavaliers
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69%1. The English Civil War: How it Started
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68%Auschwitz Commandant: Rudolf Höss
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62%The Hunt for Pablo Escobar
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69%A History of Auschwitz
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69%The Panama Canal
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64%How WW1 Inspired The Lord of The Rings
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78%Vasco da Gama and The Rise of the Portuguese Empire
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78%Charlemagne
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72%The Rise of Napoleon
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79%Who Owns Greenland?
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70%Roald Amundsen
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77%How to Survive a Medieval Crusade
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67%Rome's Greatest Humiliation: Roman Empire vs Germanic Tribes
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72%The Battle of the Bulge
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65%The Fall of Constantinople
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63%The Origins of Istanbul
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76%Charles Dickens' Christmas
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76%Folk Christmas: Yule, Solstice & Ancient English Traditions
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72%How the Mongols Changed the World
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64%Georgian Christmas
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70%The Cod Wars
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74%The Syrian Civil War: How It Started
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72%Henry VIII's Tudor Christmas
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76%Surviving the Great War: Medics in the Trenches
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74%Fascism in America
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69%Roman Saturnalia
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66%Churchill & FDR: The Origins of the 'Special Relationship'
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70%The Greeks vs Persia: The War that Changed the Ancient World
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73%Oswald Mosley & Fascism in Britain
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62%Ian Fleming's Commandos
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76%A History of Escaping from Alcatraz Prison
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79%The True Story of London's Blitz
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74%Gladiators: The Praetorian Guard
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65%Gladiators: The Real Spartacus
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74%Gladiators: Myths vs Reality
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80%Gladiators: The Colosseum
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63%Shackleton's Endurance Expedition
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76%The Clinton Body Count to the QAnon Shaman: Conspiracy Theories in American Politics
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73%The Unknown Warrior
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73%Will This Be America's Closest Election Ever?
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81%The Secret Origins of the SAS
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63%2. Wars of the Roses: Rise of the Tudors
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63%1. Wars of the Roses: England Divided
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61%The Origins of Halloween
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70%The Great Napoleonic Escape
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69%The Hunt for the Endurance Shipwreck
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74%Tom Crean: The Unsung Irish Hero of the Antarctic
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81%Ernest Shackleton
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69%Scotland & England's Union
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78%Scotland's Disastrous Attempt at Empire
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61%Robert the Bruce, King of Scots
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64%Rise of the Medici
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68%The British Agent Who Tried to Kill Lenin
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77%The Creation of Modern China
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79%The Iranian Embassy Siege with Ben Macintyre
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71%Mansa Musa: History's Wealthiest Man?
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77%On the Frontline at Stalingrad
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73%The Battle of Arnhem with Al Murray
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68%Operation Market Garden
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64%Jesse Owens
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77%How to Survive in Viking Britain
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68%Sir Walter Raleigh's Search for El Dorado
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76%The Heist of the Century: The Missing Irish Crown Jewels
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82%Machu Picchu: The Lost City
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72%Hitler's V1 & V2 Rockets
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74%How WWII Started
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79%Boudica, Britain's Warrior Queen
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76%2. The Battle of Britain Explained: The Climax
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66%1. The Battle of Britain Explained: Preparation, Pilots and Propaganda
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80%The Terracotta Warriors
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67%The First Emperor of China
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71%The Cocaine Craze in Victorian Britain
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64%The Real Society of the Snow: I Survived the Andes Flight Crash
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74%The Fall of Roman Britain
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68%The Rise of Roman Britain
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78%The Bronze Age Collapse
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79%Lawrence of Arabia
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61%The Scottish Island, The Shipwreck and The Whisky
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61%The Falaise Pocket: WWII's 'Corridor of Death'
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67%Hellfire Club: Scandal & Satanism in Georgian England
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67%The Battle of Hastings
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63%The Warsaw Uprising
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72%The Boy Who Hid in the Woods: How I Survived the Holocaust
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72%A History of Cheating at the Olympics
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70%Harris vs Trump: How We Got Here
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61%The Voyage That Changed the Way We Eat
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70%Bidens Out: A History of What Could Happen Next
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70%Operation Valkyrie: The Attempted Assassination of Hitler
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66%The Royal Marines
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73%US Presidents Who Were Almost Assassinated
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67%The Greatest Tea Race of the Victorian Age
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75%The Cutty Sark
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69%Britain's Secret Atomic Tests in Australia
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71%Was Scott's Antarctic Expedition Sabotaged?
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69%Communism in America
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78%Emperor Heraclius: Rome vs Persia
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66%A Short History of Pirates
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71%The Inside Story of the Brexit Referendum
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69%How did Brexit Happen? A History
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77%How WWI Started
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