The 1920s: Roaring or tame?

The 1920s: Roaring or tame?

Historian, author and broadcaster Kate Williams explores the key developments of the early interwar period, in this talk that was delivered at our 2015 History Weekend event in Malmesbury Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Emma Goldman: life of the week

Emma Goldman: life of the week

Anarchist, feminist, revolutionary: 19th-century activist and writer Emma Goldman emigrated from the Russian empire to the United States as a teenager, and spent decades challenging power and conventi...

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Stealing the V2 rocket: Britain’s secret WW2 intelligence coup

Stealing the V2 rocket: Britain’s secret WW2 intelligence coup

In 1944, as Allied troops pushed across Europe after D-Day, the Allies faced a terrifying new threat: Hitler’s V2 weapons, striking without warning at supersonic speed. In this episode, Emily Briffett...

21 Juni 31min

The road to the American Revolutionary War

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The United States often presents its birth as a straightforward struggle for liberty – but reality was far more messy. In this first episode of HistoryExtra's four-part series on the American Revoluti...

20 Juni 43min

The protestant missionaries that didn't change the world

The protestant missionaries that didn't change the world

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18 Juni 43min

Strangers and aliens in Tudor England

Strangers and aliens in Tudor England

Many histories of the 16th century tell stories of monarchs and courtiers – but there is, of course, much more to the century than that. Speaking to Charlotte Vosper, Nandini Das charts the ways in wh...

16 Juni 43min

Alexander the Great: life of the week

Alexander the Great: life of the week

Stretching from Greece to India, Alexander the Great’s empire was one of the largest in human history, and he’d conquered it all by the time he was 30 years old. So how did this young king of a small ...

15 Juni 54min

What myths do we tell about royal women?

What myths do we tell about royal women?

Have royal women's stories been misconstrued? Speaking to Charlotte Vosper, Kate Williams argues that many of them have been, tracing the lives of a whole host of queens – from Hatshepsut to Queen Vic...

14 Juni 50min

Cleopatra’s death – and cultural afterlife

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The final chapter of Cleopatra’s life is shrouded in mystery. Did she really take her own life? Was an asp involved? And why don’t we know where her tomb is? In this final episode of our four-part Sun...

13 Juni 38min

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