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October 09 275: Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians: England's Forgotten Warrior Queen
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Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, Alfred the Great's daughter, who took England's fight to the Vikings.

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October 08 274: Washington's Plot To Kidnap Britain's Future King
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The audacious plot to kidnap the future King William IV during the American Revolution.
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16 min
October 01 273: Rorke's Drift: The Commander Who Wasn't There
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Rhorke's Drift: The Commander Who Wasn't There
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The story of Major Henry Spalding, the man who should have been in command at the battle of Rorke's Drift, but who had ridden off a few hours before the Zulus attacked.
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September 23 272: The Death That Made Henry VIII & Changed England Forever
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In this episode we explore how the death of a forgotten heir to the Tudor throne, resulted in Henry VIII becoming king and, ultimately, the English Reformation, the dissolution of the monasteries, and the break between the Church of England and the Pope in Rome.
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22 min
September 17 271: Escape From The Mahdi: The Real Four Feathers
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The real historical events that inspired "The Four Feathers"
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18 min
September 11 270: The 19-Year-Old Shot by His Own Side: Private Thomas Highgate
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The story of Thomas Highgate, the first of the 346 soldiers executed by the British during the First World War.

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19 min
September 08 269: The Peasants' Revolt: What Was It Really About?
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On 14th June 1381, a 14-year-old king rode out to face an army of his own people. London was burning, the Tower of London had been stormed, and the Chancellor's head lay on Tower Hill.
How had England come to this?

The Peasants' Revolt 1381.

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20 min
September 06 268: Harold's Gamble: How the Battle Of Hastings Was Lost Before It Began
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In the light of all the news about the arrival of the Bayeux Tapestry in London, I want to go behind the headlines of the Battle of hastings, Harold & William, and find out what really happened in England in 1066.
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29 min
September 03 267: The Man Who Saved Rorke's Drift
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The film Zulu made the Battle of Rorke's Drift legendary, but it turned its most important defender into a footnote.

In the 1964 classic, James Langley Dalton appears as a quiet, effete commissariat clerk who hands out ammunition and fires not a shot, and somehow ended up with a Victoria Cross.

The real story, however, is far different, and far more exciting.

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16 min
August 27 266: Why Did Japan Send Her Navy To Malta In 1917?
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A Strange Memorial in a British military cemetery in Malta, recalls a forgotten story from the First World War.

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14 min

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Join Chris Green - The History Chap - as he explores the stories behind British history - the great events, the forgotten stories and the downright bizarre!Chris is a historian by training, and has a…