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- 1 By the Shores of Silver LakeLaura Ingalls Wilder · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 Caddie WoodlawnCarol Ryrie Brink · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 Das KapitalKarl Marx · 1× across 1 episode
- 4 Farmer BoyLaura Ingalls Wilder · 1× across 1 episode
- 5 Flirting with Evil, The Catholic Church in the Age of Total War and GlobalizationAmbrosio Chiani · 1× across 1 episode FW
- 6 Frida: A Biography of Frida KahloHayden Herrera · 1× across 1 episode
- 7 Gangster of New York: A Violent Life in Nineteenth Century AmericaAndrew Wender Cohen · 1× across 1 episode
- 8 Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer's LifePamela Smith Hill · 1× across 1 episode
- 9 Let the Hurricane RoarRose Wilder Lane · 1× across 1 episode
- 10 Little House in the Big WoodsLaura Ingalls Wilder · 1× across 1 episode
- 11 Little House on the PrairieLaura Ingalls Wilder · 1× across 1 episode
- 12 Little Town on the PrairieLaura Ingalls Wilder · 1× across 1 episode
- 13 Mein KampfAdolf Hitler · 1× across 1 episode
- 14 On the Banks of Plum CreekLaura Ingalls Wilder · 1× across 1 episode
- 15 Pioneer Girl: The Annotated AutobiographyPamela Smith Hill · 1× across 1 episode
- 16 PsychomachiaPrudentius · 1× across 1 episode
- 17 Selling the Korean WarStephen Casey · 1× across 1 episode
- 18 The Death of TrotskyJosh Ireland · 1× across 1 episode
- 19 The Long WinterLaura Ingalls Wilder · 1× across 1 episode
- 20 The Myth of the Twentieth CenturyAlfred Rosenberg · 1× across 1 episode
- 21 The Pocket Bayeux TapestryEmily Winkler · 1× across 1 episode TP
- 22 The Road to Wigan PierGeorge Orwell · 1× across 1 episode
- 23 The Sceptic Isle: How the British Government Solved the Second World WarStephen Casey · 1× across 1 episode
- 24 The Story of the Bayeux TapestryDavid Musgrove and Michael Lewis · 1× across 1 episode
- 25 These Happy Golden YearsLaura Ingalls Wilder · 1× across 1 episode
- 26 Too Good to Be Altogether Lost: A Look Back at the Little House BooksPamela Smith Hill · 1× across 1 episode
- 1 By the Shores of Silver LakeLaura Ingalls Wilder · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 Caddie WoodlawnCarol Ryrie Brink · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 Das KapitalKarl Marx · 1× across 1 episode
- 4 Farmer BoyLaura Ingalls Wilder · 1× across 1 episode
- 5 Flirting with Evil, The Catholic Church in the Age of Total War and GlobalizationAmbrosio Chiani · 1× across 1 episode FW
- 6 Frida: A Biography of Frida KahloHayden Herrera · 1× across 1 episode
- 7 Gangster of New York: A Violent Life in Nineteenth Century AmericaAndrew Wender Cohen · 1× across 1 episode
- 8 Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer's LifePamela Smith Hill · 1× across 1 episode
- 9 Let the Hurricane RoarRose Wilder Lane · 1× across 1 episode
- 10 Little House in the Big WoodsLaura Ingalls Wilder · 1× across 1 episode
- 11 Little House on the PrairieLaura Ingalls Wilder · 1× across 1 episode
- 12 Little Town on the PrairieLaura Ingalls Wilder · 1× across 1 episode
- 13 Mein KampfAdolf Hitler · 1× across 1 episode
- 14 On the Banks of Plum CreekLaura Ingalls Wilder · 1× across 1 episode
- 15 Pioneer Girl: The Annotated AutobiographyPamela Smith Hill · 1× across 1 episode
- 16 PsychomachiaPrudentius · 1× across 1 episode
- 17 Selling the Korean WarStephen Casey · 1× across 1 episode
- 18 The Death of TrotskyJosh Ireland · 1× across 1 episode
- 19 The Long WinterLaura Ingalls Wilder · 1× across 1 episode
- 20 The Myth of the Twentieth CenturyAlfred Rosenberg · 1× across 1 episode
- 21 The Pocket Bayeux TapestryEmily Winkler · 1× across 1 episode TP
- 22 The Road to Wigan PierGeorge Orwell · 1× across 1 episode
- 23 The Sceptic Isle: How the British Government Solved the Second World WarStephen Casey · 1× across 1 episode
- 24 The Story of the Bayeux TapestryDavid Musgrove and Michael Lewis · 1× across 1 episode
- 25 These Happy Golden YearsLaura Ingalls Wilder · 1× across 1 episode
- 26 Too Good to Be Altogether Lost: A Look Back at the Little House BooksPamela Smith Hill · 1× across 1 episode
- 1 By the Shores of Silver LakeLaura Ingalls Wilder · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 Caddie WoodlawnCarol Ryrie Brink · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 Das KapitalKarl Marx · 1× across 1 episode
- 4 Farmer BoyLaura Ingalls Wilder · 1× across 1 episode
- 5 Flirting with Evil, The Catholic Church in the Age of Total War and GlobalizationAmbrosio Chiani · 1× across 1 episode FW
- 6 Frida: A Biography of Frida KahloHayden Herrera · 1× across 1 episode
- 7 Gangster of New York: A Violent Life in Nineteenth Century AmericaAndrew Wender Cohen · 1× across 1 episode
- 8 Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer's LifePamela Smith Hill · 1× across 1 episode
- 9 Let the Hurricane RoarRose Wilder Lane · 1× across 1 episode
- 10 Little House in the Big WoodsLaura Ingalls Wilder · 1× across 1 episode
- 11 Little House on the PrairieLaura Ingalls Wilder · 1× across 1 episode
- 12 Little Town on the PrairieLaura Ingalls Wilder · 1× across 1 episode
- 13 Mein KampfAdolf Hitler · 1× across 1 episode
- 14 On the Banks of Plum CreekLaura Ingalls Wilder · 1× across 1 episode
- 15 Pioneer Girl: The Annotated AutobiographyPamela Smith Hill · 1× across 1 episode
- 16 PsychomachiaPrudentius · 1× across 1 episode
- 17 Selling the Korean WarStephen Casey · 1× across 1 episode
- 18 The Death of TrotskyJosh Ireland · 1× across 1 episode
- 19 The Long WinterLaura Ingalls Wilder · 1× across 1 episode
- 20 The Myth of the Twentieth CenturyAlfred Rosenberg · 1× across 1 episode
- 21 The Pocket Bayeux TapestryEmily Winkler · 1× across 1 episode TP
- 22 The Road to Wigan PierGeorge Orwell · 1× across 1 episode
- 23 The Sceptic Isle: How the British Government Solved the Second World WarStephen Casey · 1× across 1 episode
- 24 The Story of the Bayeux TapestryDavid Musgrove and Michael Lewis · 1× across 1 episode
- 25 These Happy Golden YearsLaura Ingalls Wilder · 1× across 1 episode
- 26 Too Good to Be Altogether Lost: A Look Back at the Little House BooksPamela Smith Hill · 1× across 1 episode
America's anti-Chinese laws: a forgotten history
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John Doe Chinaman
Beth Lou Williams
historian beth lou williams has spent countless hours in the archives uncovering this wide ranging set of laws for her book john doe chinaman ▶ tap to play from here
An African king in the Roman empire
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Rex Juba: 15 Glimpses of an African King
Andrew Kenrick
in this episode of the history extra podcast andrew kenric author of rex juba fifteen glimpses of an african king unravels his amazing life in conversation with david musgrove ▶ tap to play from here
Antony and Cleopatra
William Shakespeare
of course those listeners familiar with shakespeare's manson and cleopatra will know this story well ▶ tap to play from here
Everyday life in a slave trading town
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The Heretic of Kashu
Toby Green
the records of her case provide a remarkable window into everyday life in 17th century west africa and form the basis of toby green's latest book the heretic of kashu ▶ tap to play from here
From plague 'searchers' to strawberry birthmarks: a history of women's bodies
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Presence: A Book of Mormon
Erin McGlock
erin mcglock about her new book presence which explores the history of the female body and the longstanding beliefs that society has held about it ▶ tap to play from here
Pressure
Geir Jordet
the upcoming home release of pressure the gripping untold story of the efforts to chart the weather on d day we've teamed up with studio canal for a special event at the royal society of arts in london featuring david haig the writer of pressure ▶ tap to play from here
The Midwife's Book: Or the Whole Art of Midwifery Discovered
Jane Sharp
and say like in jane sharp's midwifery manual which is a seventeenth century english one ▶ tap to play from here
The country house at war
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The Country House at War: A Story of Loss, Reinvention, and the Birth of a New Britain
Judith S. Lewis
your book the country house at war a story of loss reinvention and the birth of new britain explores how country houses in britain were repurposed during the second world war ▶ tap to play from here
The pioneering surgeon who stood up to Rasputin
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I, Vera
Miranda Seymour
that's the question that acclaimed biographer miranda seymour takes on in her latest book i vera an account of the astonishing life of the world's first female professor of surgery ▶ tap to play from here
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The Colour is White
Vladimir Hoklov
luckily firstly there had been a very good biography w written in russian which has never been translated by vladimir hoklov called the colour is white rather unmemorably ▶ tap to play from here
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
bulgarkov was giving his patients camphor before he wrote the master and margaret and became a writer ▶ tap to play from here
Factory Poems
Vera Gedroyd
she wrote a magnificent series of of poems called the factory poems about her experiences as a factory doctor ▶ tap to play from here
The stolen Native Americans who shaped US history
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Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in the United States
Linford D. Fisher
whose book stealing america the hidden story of indigenous slavery in us history documents the sustained and systematic way in which native american people were taken from their homes ▶ tap to play from here
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
Andres Resendez
recent books like andres resandes's book the other slavery and other forms of scholarship is just this idea that from the very moment of spanish colonization ▶ tap to play from here
The Crown Silence
Brooke Newman
i'm thinking of my my friend's recent book the crown silence which i i i think is so so powerful brooke newman did an amazing job with that book ▶ tap to play from here
Being disabled in the medieval era
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Toxophilus
Roger Ascham
he wrote this book on how to shoot guns it's called the school of shooting ▶ tap to play from here
Vanilla: a far from ordinary history
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Vanilla: The History of an Extraordinary Bean
Eric T. Jennings
i spoke to eric t jennings whose book vanilla the history of an extraordinary bean is among the titles shortlisted for this year's clendon history prize ▶ tap to play from here
Ancient explosives and the philosopher's stone: a history of alchemy
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The Age of Alchemy
Kit Chapman
so today we are talking all about your book the age of alchemy ▶ tap to play from here
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
chaucer mocks it in the canterbury tales you know why is there no such thing as a rich alchemist ▶ tap to play from here
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The Secrets of Isabella Cortez
Isabella Cortez
there's one called the secrets of isabella cortez isabella cortez almost certainly never existed ▶ tap to play from here
North Korea's religious dictators
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Korean Messiah, Kim Il Song and the Christian Roots of North Korea's personality cult
Jonathan Cheng
in jonathan cheng's new book korean messiah the wall street journal correspondent argues that it owes much to the enduring cult of personality around its founder ▶ tap to play from here
Bible
Various
they are waking up at three or four or five in the morning every day to pray out loud for hours before breakfast they are memorizing entire books of the bible from beginning to end verbatim ▶ tap to play from here
Inside Venice’s Jewish ghetto
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The First Ghetto, Venice and the Jews
Alexander Lee
it's a real pleasure to have you on today to talk all about your new book the first ghetto venice and the jews ▶ tap to play from here
The Rabbinical Bible
Daniel Bomberg
the most remarkable example of which is the rabbinical bible um uh the mikla'at gadarat and this is a remarkable work of printing and typography ▶ tap to play from here
Discorso
Simone Rizzato
for example one particularly influential book discorso written by a guy called simone rizzato is you know read by leading rabbis and christians in britain ▶ tap to play from here
L'Ester
Ansaldo Ceba
she read a work called larna esther by a priest called ansaldo chaber and she loved it ▶ tap to play from here
WW2's bloody battle for Arakan
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Jungle Commandos
Lucy Betteridge Dyson
military historian lucy betteridge dyson has written a book on this subject titled jungle commandos ▶ tap to play from here
The Bayeux Tapestry: secrets of the stitchers
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Embroider the Bayeux Tapestry
Mia Hanson
and she's written a book all about it embroider the bear tapestry which we will talk about as well ▶ tap to play from here
The Bayeux Tapestry
David M. Wilson
well i use david m wilson's book the bayer tapestry because that's the largest images i can find ▶ tap to play from here
How Henry VII seized – and kept – the crown
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Henry VII: Treason and Trust
Sean Cunningham
sean is head of medieval records in the collections expertise and engagement department of the national archives and the author of henry vii treason and trust which is part of the penguin monarch series ▶ tap to play from here
The Soviet spy who couldn't love
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Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy
Ben Macintyre
your new book is called redwood the untold story of the cold war's most extraordinary spy ▶ tap to play from here
The slave ship that changed history
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The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
Siddharth Kara
his latest book the zorg a tale of greed and murder that inspired the abolition of slavery is published by penguin and is released in paperback this september ▶ tap to play from here
Have we overlooked England’s local histories?
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Through the Windows of an Ordinary House: A History of England
Ian Mortimer
ian is a historian and author of the time traveller's guide series and his latest book is through the windows of an ordinary house a history of england ▶ tap to play from here
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
Ian Mortimer
ian is a historian and author of the time traveller's guide series and his latest book is through the windows of an ordinary house a history of england ▶ tap to play from here
The making of the modern Middle East
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Jerusalem: The Biography
Simon Sebag Montefiore
and i mean i've written a whole book about the history of the holy land jerusalem so this this isn't that ▶ tap to play from here
The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East
Simon Sebag Montefiore
his latest book is the cauldron the making of the modern middle east and it's available now ▶ tap to play from here
Joan of Arc: inspirational leader or flawed failure?
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Next Gen CEO
Mike Soutar
originally featured in our history's greatest leaders series entrepreneur and author of next gen ceo mike souter talks to historian yanina ramirez about joan's story and the lessons it could offer for today's ▶ tap to play from here
Legenda
Janina Ramirez
why is it so important that we talk about what you have called in legenda your book the flesh and blood women who made the world rather than their sanitized mythologized counterparts ▶ tap to play from here
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