[ad_1] Journalist Philip Oltermann explores the unusual story of the poetry group run by the East German Ministry for State Security. Speaking to Rob Attar, he explains why the Stasi…
[ad_1] Journalist Philip Oltermann explores the unusual story of the poetry group run by the East German Ministry for State Security. Speaking to Rob Attar, he explains why the Stasi…
[ad_1] As Spanish conquistators slowly moved through Latin America, they encountered levels of wealth that were unimaginable. Most famously, Incan Emperor Atahualpa was captured by Francisco Pizarro and paid a…
[ad_1] 17 May 1510 Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli died in Florence. One of his most celebrated works, The Birth of Venus, is now on display in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery. 17…
[ad_1] 5/16/2022 HMS Black Joke Please note that this episode contains mentions of racial trauma, slavery and violence. The most feared ship in Britain’s West Africa Squadron, His Majesty’s Black…
[ad_1] In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the leaders of Finland and Sweden announced their official move to apply to join NATO. The Sunday announcement “changes decades of Finnish…
[ad_1] In the 16th century, Sir Thomas Digges and others were writing about Copernicus’s new idea of a sun-centred universe. Then, on 26 July 1609, Thomas Harriot made the first…
[ad_1] ‘A Monmouth! A Monmouth! The Protestant religion!’” The uprising that began that day was designed to oust the new king, James II and VII, who, as both an authoritarian…
[ad_1] This first episode covers the earliest ways humans cared for their teeth, including the belief that demons might have something to do with tooth decay. We move all the…
[ad_1] Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Amazon | Player.FMCastbox | Stitcher | Podcast Republic | RSS | Patreon Podcast Transcript In the early 4th century, the Roman Emperor…
[ad_1] As recent archival finds and reappraisals of well-known documents show, Liss forged her own path to freedom—and may have even spied on the British while doing so. Illustration by…
[ad_1] 5/12/2022 The Black Death | 3. living through the plague Ep. 1341 What would it have been like to live through a Black Death outbreak? In this episode, Ellie…
[ad_1] Archaeologists have translated the hieroglyphic on a Maya vessel unearthed last fall in Yucatán, southeastern Mexico, and identified the name Cholom, a nobleman of the ancient city-state of Oxkintok.…
[ad_1] 16 May 1703: Peter the Great founds his namesake city The ambitious emperor plans an unlikely settlement on the Baltic Even by the standards of Russia’s colourful history, the…
[ad_1] By the time the Cultural Revolution ended in 1976 an estimated minimum of 400,000 people had died through torture, execution, or … [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] 5/15/2022 The Cato Street Conspiracy On the night of February 23 1820, twenty-five impoverished craftsmen assembled in an obscure stable in Cato Street, London, with a plan to massacre…
[ad_1] How did the Restoration of the monarchy come about, after a period of civil war and 11 years of Republican rule? How smooth was the transfer of power? And…
[ad_1] Restoration work at the Esna Temple on the west bank of the Nile 35 miles south of Luxor has revealed painted inscriptions and images in vivid original color. The…
[ad_1] 15 May 1718 London lawyer James Puckle is granted a patent for his ‘Defence Gun’, a rapid-fire weapon designed to protect ships from boarders. 15 May 1810 Retired admiral…
[ad_1] As Captain Scott lay freezing and starving to death on his return journey from the South Pole, he wrote with a stub of pencil his final words: ‘For God’s…