Londinium (TRIH eps 209-213)
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Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook walk listeners through a tightly focused ‘Hidden London’ tour around Newgate, Smithfield and the remains of St Bartholomew's. They explore concealed layers of urban history: Newgate prison and execution routes to Tyburn, the Pie Corner marker for the Great Fire of London (1666), body‑snatching links with St Bartholomew's Hospital, and the notorious Cock Lane poltergeist. They visit St Bartholomew the Great — its Romanesque and early Gothic fabric, a claimed M...
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- Jesus of Nazareth (4 BCE)
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- Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem (70)
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