How Britain prepared for the advent of nuclear war by not building enough fall-out shelters but having enough tea bags in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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How post-war America became so paranoid about Communists, they organised show trials and exiled enemies of the state just like the Communists. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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'The Cycling Suffragettes" - how young women shocked Victorian society by finding freedom on bicycles and wearing weird trousers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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How former slaves campaigned in Georgian Britain, recounting how they were ripped from their families in Africa and sold into a brutal life of slavery, which you're not allowed to do since political correctness went mad. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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In the 1930s, as Germany succumbed to the Nazis and Mussolini ruled Italy, Sir Oswald Mosley created the British Union of Facists, supported by the Daily Mail who famously declared 'Hurrah for the Blackshirts!' Why did he fail? Could Britain have succumbed to a facist dictatorship? And did his teenage kids say 'Honestly Dad, you're such a facist!' Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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How the Black Death killed half of Europe, swept away serfdom, nudged Europe into the Rennaisance and made it much harder for spotty teenagers to get invited to parties. (This episode was recorded before the Coronavirus outbreak.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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In the 1970s and '80s, the rise of TV evangelism in America made multi-millionaires of the most ruthless and ambitious self-styled preachers, who used the money they extorted from vulnerable Christians for a variety of good causes - such as private jets, right-wing politics and prostitutes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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How homing pigeons were dropped behind enemy lines to acquire secrets from Nazi occupied Europe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1975 - the first time Britain had a referendum on being in Europe and the ugliest things ever got was the fashion for flares, tank-tops and mullet haircuts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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How Vlad the Impaler got his nickname. (Was it just the main thing people noticed about him?) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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