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Michael Wood on the rise and fall of Asian empires.

Forgotten female secret agents of WW2.

What Was Life REALLY like in a Medieval Castle? The truth about castle living.

Star witness: how the Royal Observatory transformed our understanding of astronomy and time.

What causes cultures to decline and fall?.

Episode 3How 1066 altered England’s fate FOREVER.

Christopher Marlowe: life of the week.

Fake news and the Dreyfus affair: the media-fuelled scandal that divided France.

Uprising: the Civil Wars untangled.

The Nazis’ crimes laid bare.

Did Hitler have a secret Jewish grandfather? Our DNA research has solved the mystery.

What does Hitler’s DNA really tell us?.

Mutilated corpses and undead mothers-in-law: vampire epidemics through history.

The REAL history behind Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and more.

After Franco: Spain's miraculous transition to democracy.

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Tales of the toilet: a historical A–Z.

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Not 1066 again! Should we ditch our obsession with dates?.

Episode 8Windsor Castle

The problem with poo: a millennium of manure.

Toilets through timeAbsolutely bogging.

Episode 7Early modern chamber pots.

Episode 6Prehistoric toilets.

Episode 5Anglo-Saxon and Norman cesspits.

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Let’s think before we flush, with Dr Christopher Harding.

Episode 3Tudor garderobes.

Episode 1Roman latrines.

Episode 4Victorian lavatories.

Episode 2Medieval privies.

James Garfield: life of the week.

Episode 2The LAST Anglo-Saxon kings of England | Harold II and the road to 1066.