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Trading History

Season 1
Every day, history is traded all over the world. Poignant, bizarre and unique items that may never have been seen in public before, and with a fascinating and often untold tale behind every object. TRADING HISTORY unearths extraordinary objects drawn from every corner of the world and reveals the amazing hidden histories behind them, before they disappear into private collections.
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Episode 1

    June 15, 2021
    48min
    TV-G
    Highlights include the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck, baby photos of Queen Elizabeth II, the death of an Irish aristocrat, antique eyewear, a WWI tank mask and clothing that once belonged to Queen Victoria.
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  2. S1 E2 - Episode 2

    June 15, 2021
    48min
    TV-G
    Highlights include the Nazi’s best night fighter-pilot, rare dinosaur skeletons, a carved cup from the tree of William Shakespeare, the earliest-known aerial photographs of London and the tools used to design the architecture of Bath City.
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  3. S1 E3 - Episode 3

    June 15, 2021
    48min
    TV-G
    Highlights include a clock salvaged from a German warship, an Irish house untouched for almost 100 years, the first ever Vampire book and a rare collection of drawings made by Queen Victoria herself.
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  4. S1 E4 - Episode 4

    June 15, 2021
    48min
    TV-G
    Highlights include a collection of over 700 pieces of antique taxidermy, vintage dresses that belonged to Diana, Princess of Wales, furniture believed to have belonged to a notorious 18th century prostitute and fraudster, love tokens engraved on coins from convicts transported to Australian penal colonies and a 1948 Olympic visitor book that is a tale of hope in post-war London.
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  5. S1 E5 - Episode 5

    June 15, 2021
    48min
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    Highlights include items from the crew of the Titanic, a police book from the Great Train Robbery, killer kimonos, a golden key that belonged to Catherine the Great and a silver spade linked to one of the worst mining disasters in history.
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  6. S1 E6 - Episode 6

    June 15, 2021
    48min
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    Highlights include a rare watch linked to the Great Escape, a unique piece of Faberge, the coin that changed the history of America and a mysterious silver cigarette case which reveals the history of Russia at the fall of the Romanovs.
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