WRITTEN BY:
Dave Cohen, Gerard Foster, Giles Pilbrow, Laurence Rickard, Colin Swash and Ben Ward
ORIGINAL AIRDATE:
3 June 2011
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John Balliol is dissatisfied with his luxurious exile
Stupid Deaths: Griffith Ap Llewelyn
Historical Hospital: A Roman physician prescribes gladiator’s blood as a tonic
Shouty Man: New! Criminal’s Head
Historical Wife Swap: Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette swap with a distinctly unimpressed starving peasant family
A new British arrival to the trenches struggles to locate a familiar accent amid the Commonwealth forces
Ladies’ tights help Scots soldiers keep warm and safe in the trenches (advertisement)
Elizabeth I’s Christmas present turns out to be a timekeeping revolution (from the Christmas Special)
Special footwear helped women keep dry in muddy streets–but looking where they were going helped even more (animated)
Historical Fashion Fix: The latest peasant to have a makeover is unappreciative of his noble transformation
HHTV News: Bob Hale’s Tutankhamun Report
Ra Ra Cleopatra song
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Ra Ra Cleopatra