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Episodes

History repeating?

The Magdalene laundries: Ireland’s secret shame

The troubled birth of England

Cultural dreams v political nightmares: life in interwar Weimar

Athens v Sparta: a Greek tragedy

Sex, secrecy and social ambition: inside a Georgian masquerade

Marilyn Monroe: the brains behind the bombshell

How the Black Death devastated the Muslim world

The secret history behind the Odyssey

"War minus the shooting": football during the Cold War

Georgian Britain's most curious hoax

US at 250: the hard road to independence

Elizabeth II: the great survivor

The seven deadly sins: a medieval self-help guide

Lost stories from Pompeii

Nell Gwyn: England's mistress

The Asante gold: a tale of blood and plunder

How medieval mothers took back control

Rome's people power

The 'Iron Curtain' speech: why Churchill poked the Russian bear