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A History of Christianity episode 3 – Orthodoxy – From Empire to Empire

History / 1 minute of reading / December 28, 2018 / By HDclump

A History of Christianity episode 3 – Orthodoxy: today, Eastern Orthodox Christianity flourishes in the Balkans and Russia, with over 150 million members worldwide. It is unlike Catholicism or Protestantism – worship is carefully choreographed, icons pull the faithful into a mystical union with Christ, and everywhere there is a symbol of a fierce-looking bird, the double-headed eagle. What story […]

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A History of Christianity episode 2 – The Unpredictable Rise of Rome

History / 1 minute of reading / December 26, 2018 / By HDclump

A History of Christianity episode 2 : Diarmaid MacCulloch explores the rise of Roman Catholicism. How did a small Jewish sect become western Europe’s established religion? Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch’s grandfather was a devout pillar of the local Anglican church and felt that any dabbling in Catholicism was liable to pollute the English way of life. But now his

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A History of Christianity episode 1 – The First Christianity

History / 2 minutes of reading / December 25, 2018 / By HDclump

A History of Christianity episode 1: professor Diarmaid MacCulloch – reveals the origins of Christianity and explores what it means to be a Christian. A History of Christianity episode 1 – The First Christianity When Diarmaid MacCulloch was a small boy, his parents used to drive him round historic churches. Little did they know that they had

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They Shall Not Grow Old

History / 2 minutes of reading / November 12, 2018 / By HDclump

They Shall Not Grow Old – Peter Jackson brings to life the people who can best tell the story of World War I: the men who were there, employing state-of-the-art technology to transform audio and moving image archive footage more than a century old. Alternative video stream For Fullscreen They Shall Not Grow Old Driven by a

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WWI – The Last Tommies episode 3 – Battle of Passchendaele

History / 2 minutes of reading / November 8, 2018 / By HDclump

The Fight to the End tells the story of the terrible battles of 1917 and 1918, and how Britain and her allies turned a looming defeat into victory. As recruitment levels fell, conscription was introduced. One of the conscripts was Harry Patch – here interviewed for the first time – who went on to live to the age of 111,

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WWI – The Last Tommies episode 2 – The Battle of the Somme

History / 2 minutes of reading / November 7, 2018 / By HDclump

The Battle of the Somme is an immersive account of one of the most iconic and tragic battles in history, told through its last survivors and through families and communities at home who lost loved ones. When the troops went over the top in June 1916, they imagined this was the attack that would end the war. Instead, it turned

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WWI – The Last Tommies episode 1

History / 2 minutes of reading / November 6, 2018 / By HDclump

Vivid and heartbreaking stories told by the last Tommies – filmed in their 90s and 100s – remembering life and death in World War I, illustrated with powerful archive. The three-part series is the result of a uniquely important oral history project to record the experiences of men and women who lived through Great War. This episode tells the story of

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The Empire State Story

History / 3 minutes of reading / November 4, 2018 / By HDclump

This programme chronicles the construction of the Empire State Building in New York, which was the world’s tallest skyscraper when opened in 1931. The programme investigates the building’s history through interviews with the people who contributed to the construction of this iconic building. The Empire State Story Packed with personal anecdotes and great storytelling, this programme creates

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Greek Myths – Tales of Travelling Heroes

History / 1 minute of reading / November 2, 2018 / By HDclump

Eminent classical historian Robin Lane Fox embarks on a journey in search of the origins of the Greek myths. He firmly believes that these fantastical stories lie at the root of western culture, and yet little is known about where the myths of the Greek gods came from, and how they grew. Now, after 35 years of travelling, excavation and

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100 Days to Victory – The Fightback episode 2

History / 2 minutes of reading / October 31, 2018 / By HDclump

The Allies win a great victory at Amiens. The tide is turning, but the victors are under no illusions. The German Army remains a daunting fighting force and it has an ace up the sleeve: the Hindenburg Line – the most formidable defensive system in military history. If the Allies are to have any hope for victory, they need to

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100 Days to Victory – The Spring Offensive episode 1

History / 2 minutes of reading / October 26, 2018 / By HDclump

100 Days to Victory – Series charting how the Allies won WWI. This episode examines the lead up to the ‘combined arms’ coordination of artillery, tanks, aircraft and infantry. We meet the commanders and men in early 1918, at the moment of maximum jeopardy. The Germans have launched a mighty ‘shock and awe’ attack, advancing more than 60

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The Pacific In The Wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill ep. 6

History, Travel / 2 minutes of reading / October 2, 2018 / By HDclump

In a bid to find the not yet existent North West passage Cook encountered vast ice ranges and saw the impact of colonisation first hand when entering part of Alaska already overtaken by the Russians. Forced back by the ice shelf Cook retreats to Hawaii for R&R before returning to the Arctic the following summer. But that was not to

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