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How did humanity endure a plague that turned the living into "no more account than a dead goat"?

Matt Lewis and Dr. Eleanor Janega are navigating this medieval apocalypse, from terrifying buboes and public flagellation to tight skirts and sky-rocketing wages. They uncover how the Black Death reshaped the medieval world. Could you have survived the most devastating pande...


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Who were the Vikings beyond the raiders and longships? What can their graves reveal about the people who built one of history's most remarkable societies?

Archaeological science is revealing a civilisation far richer and more interconnected than the popular image of axe-wielding warriors.

Dr. Eleanor Janega is joined by Dr. Neil Price to uncover the extraordinary ...


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Was King Robert the Bruce a true Scottish freedom fighter or a ruthless, self-interested politician?

Matt Lewis and Dr. Eleanor Janega are getting stuck into the riotous, bloody history of the legendary Scottish king, from constant backstabbing and the murder of his rivals, to the stunning underdog victory at the Battle of Bannockburn, they explore how Robert the Bruce ...


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How did harmless medieval healers become hunted as terrifying, devil-worshiping conspirators? Matt Lewis and Professor Marion Gibson explore the chilling origins of the witch trials; how a humiliated inquisitor named Heinrich Kramer, after being publicly defied by a local woman in Innsbruck, penned the infamous Malleus Maleficarum? This sinister manual weaponised fol...


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Why would the execution of a single Czech priest spark decades of bloody revolution across Europe? In 1414, the outspoken reformer Jan Hus was promised safe conduct to a church council, only to be arrested, tried for heresy, and burned at the stake. Dr. Eleanor Janega and Matt Lewis as they uncover the explosive Hussite Wars; a brutal conflict over church corruption, communio...


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