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13th July 1793: Jean-Paul Marat stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday

13th July 2017
Tagged as: Assassination, Execution, France, French Revolution, Girondin, Guillotine, Marat, Media, Murder, Newspaper, Paris, Radicalism, Revolution, Third Estate

On the 13^th July 1793, the radical French journalist Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday.

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11th July 1947: The Edinburgh Festival Fringe marked by this live #WorldFringeDay podcast

11th July 2017
Tagged as: Anniversary, Art, Buxton, Comedy, Culture, Derbyshire, Edinburgh, Festival, International, Music, Scotland

HistoryPod is proud to be able to celebrate #WorldFringeDay, and the foundation of the Fringe movement, in this special live recording from the Buxton Festival Fringe in the wonderful English spa town of Buxton in Derbyshire.

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HistoryPod Live: Historical significance. How are events chosen for the daily podcast?

10th July 2017
Tagged as: Calendar, historiography, Islam, Roman Empire, Romania

This extended edition of HistoryPod attempts to answer the most common question from listeners: how and why are certain events featured (or not) in the daily podcast?

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23rd June: Britain’s historic foreign relations

23rd June 2016
Tagged as: America, Britain, Catholicism, England, Europe, France, Germany, Henry VIII, Independence, Portugal, Protestantism, Prussia, Revolution, Scotland

The 23^rd June has, historically, seen many events regarding Britain’s relationship with other countries and so I thought I’d put together this HistoryPod Extra to share some with you.

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HistoryPod Extra: Centenary of the Easter Rising

26th March 2016
Tagged as: Army, Britain, Ireland, Rebellion, Republic, Uprising

The armed insurrection began on Easter Monday which, due to Easter being a moveable feast as a result of its relationship to the lunar calendar, in 1916 fell on the 24^th April.