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    Suez Crisis 1956 | Part 4 | Back From the Brink | Ancient to Recent | Episode 51
    In this episode of Ancient to Recent, Joseph Parkinson concludes the story of the 1956 Suez Crisis as Britain, France and Israel press forward with their invasion of Egypt, only to find military victo...
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    • 3 months ago
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    Suez Crisis 1956 | Part 2 | The Conspiracy at Sevres | Ancient to Recent | Episode 49
    In this episode of Ancient to Recent, Joseph Parkinson continues the story of the 1956 Suez Crisis as Britain, France and Israel move ever closer towards war.In secret meetings outside Paris, David Be...
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    • 3 months ago
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    The Siege of Constantinople | Part 5 | The Fall of an Empire | Ancient to Recent | Episode 45
    In this episode of Ancient to Recent, Joseph Parkinson concludes the dramatic siege of Constantinople.After weeks of relentless bombardment and failed assaults, Mehmed II launches his final, all-out a...
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    • 4 months ago
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    The Siege of Constantinople | Part 4 | The Noose Tightens | Ancient to Recent | Episode 44
    In this episode of Ancient to Recent, Joseph Parkinson continues the dramatic siege of Constantinople as the struggle enters a final and brutal new phase.With his navy strengthened, Mehmed II seeks to...
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    • 4 months ago
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    The Haitian Revolution | Part 4 | Shadows of Supremacy | Ancient to Recent | Episode 39
    In this episode of Ancient to Recent, Toussaint Louverture crushes rivals and claims unchallenged power in Saint-Domingue, but at the cost of deepening divisions and inviting imperial backlash.From 17...
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    • 5 months ago
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    The Haitian Revolution | Part III | Liberty in Chains | Ancient to Recent | Episode 38
    In this episode of Ancient to Recent, the Haitian Revolution becomes a global imperial battlefield, and a test of what freedom truly means.Early 1793. The execution of Louis XVI drags Saint-Domingue i...
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    • 6 months ago
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    The Haitian Revolution | Part II | Fire in the Cane Fields | Ancient to Recent | Episode 37
    In this episode of Ancient to Recent, the Haitian Revolution explodes into open war.August 1791. Across the northern plains of Saint-Domingue, plantations burn, masters flee, and thousands of enslaved...
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    • 6 months ago
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    Maximilian of Mexico: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire | Part 4  | Napoleon’s Betrayal, Juarez’s Advance and the Fateful Decision | Ancient to Recent | Episode 29
    By late 1865, the Second Mexican Empire was beginning to unravel. French support, once the foundation of Maximilian’s throne, was wavering, Republican resistance was intensifying, and pressure from a ...
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    • 8 months ago
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    Maximilian of Mexico: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire | Part 2 | US Civil War, Franz Josef and the Catholic Church |Ancient to Recent I Episode 27
    In 1864, Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria crossed the Atlantic to claim a crown forged in diplomacy, ambition, and illusion. What awaited him in Mexico was not the enlightened monarchy he imag...
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    • 8 months ago
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    Hermann Goering and the Nazi Mind | How the Nazis Were Captured, Studied & Prepared for Nuremberg | Ancient to Recent | Episode 24
    In 1945, the Allies seized the top surviving Nazi leaders and locked them inside a secret U.S. prison known as Ashcan. At the center of it all was Hermann Göring, Reichsmarschall, head of the Luftwaff...
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    • 9 months ago
    46:45
    The Ukrainian Revolution Part III | Stalin’s Collectivisation: The War on Ukraine’s Peasants | Ancient to Recent | Episode 22
    By the end of the 1920s, Stalin had a vision, to forge a new Soviet man and break the old peasant world forever. Across Ukraine, a war was declared on the countryside. Villages were torn apart, church...
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    • 9 months ago
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    Norman Conquest | The Fall of Anglo-Saxon England | Ancient to Recent | Episode 19
    As the smoke of Hastings clears, William the Conqueror’s work has only just begun. From the burning towns of Sussex to the frozen wastes of Northumbria, England descends into chaos. The Godwinsons ris...
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    • 10 months ago
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    Kim Il Sung: The Still Birth of North Korea, Part 2 | Ancient to Recent | Episode 16
    The Korean War erupts in a storm of artillery, but Kim Il Sung's plans for a swift victory unravel as UN forces push back the North Korean advance. As the conflict descends into a brutal stalemate...
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    • 11 months ago
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    Kim Il Sung: The Still Birth of North Korea | Ancient to Recent | Episode 15
    In the early days of the 20th century, Korea was under the grip of Japanese imperial rule, a period that reshaped the peninsula forever. Out of this turmoil emerged Kim Il Sung, a partisan fighter who...
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    • 11 months ago
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    Bullets and Rosary Beads, Part 2 | Guns & Gaddafi | Ancient to Recent | Episode 13
    In the 1980s, Father Patrick Ryan became one of the IRA’s most valuable allies. From secret Libyan arms deals to the Brighton bombing that nearly killed Margaret Thatcher, his story is one of faith, f...
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    • 1 year ago
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    Navalny vs. Putin Part III | Poison, Prison, and the Fight for Russia’s Future | Ancient to Recent | Episode 11
    In this powerful final chapter of our Alexei Navalny series, we follow Russia’s most prominent opposition leader from the 2017 acid attack that scarred him, to his poisoning with Novichok, his defiant...
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    • 1 year ago
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    Road to Unity Part 4 | The Guns of August: How Germany Went to War in 1914 | Ancient to Recent | Episode 8
    In this epic episode of Ancient to Recent, we unpack the tragic and complex chain of events that dragged Germany and the world into the First World War. From the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sa...
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    • 1 year ago
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    Road to Unity Part 1 | Bismarck and the Unification of Germany | Ancient to Recent | Episode 5
    From Napoleon to Bismarck, this is the story of how Prussia unified the German states through diplomacy, war, and ruthless ambition culminating in the creation of the German Empire in 1871. Based on I...
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    • 1 year ago
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    No Escape: The Global Reach of China's Uyghur Crackdown | Ancient to Recent | Episode 3
    In this gripping episode, we uncover the chilling reality faced by Uyghurs both inside and outside China. From high-tech surveillance in Xinjiang to threats and coercion abroad, the Chinese government...
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    • 1 year ago
    01:05:33
    The Tragedy of Joe Biden - Ancient to Recent - Episode 2
    In the second episode of Ancient to Recent, we cover Original Sin by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson.Convinced that the threat posed by Trump was too great and that only Biden could stop him, his team l...
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    • 1 year ago
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