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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
The forgotten slave traders who shaped Britain
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What is ‘Europe’, anyway?
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Christianity, conflict and catastrophe: the life of CS Lewis
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Was Napoleon III the world's first populist leader?
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The Bayeux Tapestry blockbuster at the British Museum
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The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry
David Musgrove and Michael Lewis
michael and i have cowritten a book the story of the bear tapestry ▶ tap to play from here
Domesday Book
William the Conqueror (Commissioned by)
doomsday book could have not happened in normandy ▶ tap to play from here
Vita Ædwardi Regis
Anonymous (sometimes attributed to a monk of Saint-Bertin, commissioned by Edith of Wessex)
and i love the fact also that so basically in this scene you've got edward in his deathbed he's kind of touching hands with harold their stigan kind of not shaven because he's been up all ▶ tap to play from here
The secrets of our DNA
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The Secrets of Our DNA
Cherry King
so this time we're here to talk about your new book the secrets of our dna which is a really comprehensive guide to bond genetics and its uses ▶ tap to play from here
What's it like to live in a royal palace?
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The Daughter of Time
Josephine Tey
an outsize influence played in all of this by an actual detective story called the daughter of time ▶ tap to play from here
Queens and Kings: An Unusually Personal History
Lucy Worsley
her latest book is queen kings an unusually personal history and it's available now ▶ tap to play from here
Roman kings: myth, memory and the making of power
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Annals
Tacitus
tacitus that famously caustic and and cynical historian describes roman history at the beginning of the annals almost as the republic is a brief sentence between the kings and the emperors ▶ tap to play from here
Philip Augustus: the Plantagenets’ greatest rival
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Nemesis
Catherine Hanley
today we are going to be talking all about your book nemesis ▶ tap to play from here
Laura Ingalls Wilder: life of the week
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Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer's Life
Pamela Smith Hill
author of books including laura ingalls wilder a writer's life and laura ingalls wilder's pioneer girl the annotated autobiography ▶ tap to play from here
Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography
Pamela Smith Hill
laura ingalls wilder's pioneer girl the annotated autobiography ▶ tap to play from here
Little Town on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder
found a copy of little town on the prairie in the very back of the bookmobile ▶ tap to play from here
Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder
form her novel little house on the prairie which has become perhaps the most iconic of the little house books ▶ tap to play from here
On the Banks of Plum Creek
Laura Ingalls Wilder
wilder wrote about this in her book on the banks of plum creek ▶ tap to play from here
Little House in the Big Woods
Laura Ingalls Wilder
when the little house books open in little house in the big woods ▶ tap to play from here
By the Shores of Silver Lake
Laura Ingalls Wilder
until we get to by the shores of silver lake when baby grace is born ▶ tap to play from here
The Long Winter
Laura Ingalls Wilder
the book the long winter i think is wilder's masterpiece ▶ tap to play from here
These Happy Golden Years
Laura Ingalls Wilder
there's a scene in these happy golden years which is wilder's last book ▶ tap to play from here
Let the Hurricane Roar
Rose Wilder Lane
in her first pioneer novel let the hurricane roar she probably did this without laura engels wilder's knowledge ▶ tap to play from here
Caddie Woodlawn
Carol Ryrie Brink
carol ryrie brink published catty woodlawn which covers some of the same concepts ▶ tap to play from here
Too Good to Be Altogether Lost: A Look Back at the Little House Books
Pamela Smith Hill
pamela's latest book is too good to be altogether lost a look back at the little house books which closely examines wilder's texts ▶ tap to play from here
How bullies shaped 19th-century America
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Gangster of New York: A Violent Life in Nineteenth Century America
Andrew Wender Cohen
his latest book is gangster of new york a violent life in nineteenth century america ▶ tap to play from here
Is there a royal sex scandal hidden in plain sight in the Bayeux tapestry?
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The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry
David Musgrove and Michael Lewis
michael is the curator of the british museh which opens in september and he is coauthor with david of the story of the bayer tapestry ▶ tap to play from here
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The Pocket Bayeux Tapestry
Emily Winkler
emily is a medieval historian at oxford university and the author of the pocket bayer tapestry which as the name suggests is a pocket sized book ▶ tap to play from here
Psychomachia
Prudentius
one manuscript we know he was definitely drawing from was this anglo saxon copy of predentis' psychomachia ▶ tap to play from here
Did Britain really 'keep calm and carry on' in WW2?
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Selling the Korean War
Stephen Casey
i wrote a book about twenty years ago called selling the korean war which looked at all different aspects of the selling of that war ▶ tap to play from here
The Road to Wigan Pier
George Orwell
george orwell is writing with doing his research for wrote to wigan pier in march nineteen thirty six ▶ tap to play from here
The Sceptic Isle: How the British Government Solved the Second World War
Stephen Casey
and his latest book is the sceptic isle how the british government solved the second world war ▶ tap to play from here
Did the Catholic Church support Hitler?
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Das Kapital
Karl Marx
they clearly not read das capital or lenin's writings in any great depth ▶ tap to play from here
The Myth of the Twentieth Century
Alfred Rosenberg
you get a lot of this in alfred rosenberg's the myth of the twentieth century ▶ tap to play from here
Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler
the catholic church is too scared to put mine camp the index of prohibited books catholics can read mein kampf ▶ tap to play from here
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Flirting with Evil, The Catholic Church in the Age of Total War and Globalization
Ambrosio Chiani
ambrosio is a senior lecturer in history at the university of kent and his latest book is flirting with evil the catholic church in the age of total war and globalization which is out now ▶ tap to play from here
Frida Kahlo: life of the week
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The Death of Trotsky
Josh Ireland
i spoke to josh ireland a couple of months ago about his book the death of trotsky in which i posed the question of the affair between trotsky and frida kahlo to him ▶ tap to play from here
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
Hayden Herrera
and then one of the big moments kind of of b the beginning of freedomania was the publication of hayden herera's biography so in nineteen eighty three hayden herrera published this kind of blockbuster biography of frida kahlo ▶ tap to play from here
How the Americas transformed Tudor England
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A Golden World
Lauren Working
her new book a golden world examines everything from dazzling red dyes and precious gems to tobacco and indigenous knowledge to shed light on this story ▶ tap to play from here
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Richard Hakluyt
a really famous one is richard hacklett's principal navigations of the english nation which is kind of the shortened title but is published in 1589 ▶ tap to play from here
A Counterblaste to Tobacco
King James I
james published his counterblast to tobacco in 1604 ▶ tap to play from here
American Baroque
Molly Walsh
i think the the figure that molly walsh gives in her book american barack which is about kind of pearl fishing in this period she says that charles the fifth ▶ tap to play from here
Preview: Master the medieval art of knowing yourself
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Talking Back (Antirrhetikos)
Evagrius Ponticus
he writes a book called aneteticos which is like talking back where he documents every single one of his negative tempting thoughts ▶ tap to play from here
Purgatorio
Dante Alighieri
and dante's the most famous of that's you know early thirteen hundreds his purgatorio is a mountain with made up of the sev seven terraces of the seven deadly sins ▶ tap to play from here
Have we got ancient women's sexuality all wrong?
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CA
Classical Antiquity and Contemporary Bodies
Dr. G. Menzies
we'll be talking all about aphrodisia women's sex and pleasure in the classical world i'd love to open this in the same way you open the introduction of your book with an object the vindelander fallers ▶ tap to play from here
Adultery, assassination and Agatha Christie: the dark side of the hotel
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The Secret Life of the Hotel
Eloise Moss
but your book the secret life of the hotel completely changes that picture ▶ tap to play from here
Hedy Lamarr: life of the week
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Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film
Ruth Barton
ruth is fellow emeritus in film studies at trinity college dublin and author of hedy lamar the most beautiful woman in film published by university of kentucky press in 2010 ▶ tap to play from here
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