S5E7 The Mamluks: A Louvre Exhibition, with Carine Juvin

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S6E1: The Armenian Architects of the Ottoman East, with Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan

In this new podcast episode, the first in our series on Peripheries, we discuss the place of Armenian architects in the towns and cities of eastern Anatolia in the late Ottoman empire. Our guest is Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan, Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Lincoln, whe ...  Show more

S5E8: Islamic Silver in a Viking Treasure Hoard, with Jane Kershaw

Join us in this episode as we discuss the exciting finds from the Bedale hoard in North Yorkshire, England. In 2012 a group of amateur metal detectors discovered a hoard of late 9th century Viking silver in Bedale. The items found were ingots, necklaces, arm-bands, and a sword po ...  Show more

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