HeyJaredExtraordinary Stories of Britain
A history podcast packed with fun and informative tales. Visiting little-known corners of British history, shedding new light on familiar faces, uncovering unusual - and sometimes bizarre - facts along the way, this is the podcast for anglophiles, history buffs, and anyone…
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Strange Stories of the Deaths of Kings — History's Most Extraordinary Royal Demises (opens the original)
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Some kings died suddenly, some violently, and some in circumstances so strange that their final moments have remained mysteries for centuries. Hear about the strange stories of royal deaths in our British History Podcast
The Gin Craze - When England was Drunk (opens the original)
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The Gin Craze was one of the darkest chapters in British history. In this podcast we tell the extraordinary true stories behind the epidemic that gripped Georgian London—from murder and corruption to secret gin shops, riots and Hogarth's famous Gin Lane. It's the story of how one drink nearly destroyed a nation, and the lessons it still has to teach us today.
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