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America's anti-Chinese laws: a forgotten history
Oct 20, 202629 min
An African king in the Roman empire
Oct 19, 202636 min
Everyday life in a slave trading town
Oct 18, 202630 min
From plague 'searchers' to strawberry birthmarks: a history of women's bodies
Oct 15, 202634 min
The country house at war
Oct 13, 202627 min
The pioneering surgeon who stood up to Rasputin
Oct 12, 202648 min
The stolen Native Americans who shaped US history
Oct 11, 202647 min
Being disabled in the medieval era
Oct 8, 202645 min
Vanilla: a far from ordinary history
Oct 6, 202637 min
Ancient explosives and the philosopher's stone: a history of alchemy
Oct 5, 202635 min
North Korea's religious dictators
Oct 4, 202645 min
Inside Venice’s Jewish ghetto
Oct 1, 202646 min
WW2's bloody battle for Arakan
Sep 29, 202637 min
The Bayeux Tapestry: secrets of the stitchers
Sep 28, 202632 min
How Henry VII seized – and kept – the crown
Sep 27, 202648 min
The Soviet spy who couldn't love
Sep 24, 202642 min
The slave ship that changed history
Sep 22, 202647 min
Have we overlooked England’s local histories?
Sep 21, 202640 min
The making of the modern Middle East
Sep 20, 202646 min
Joan of Arc: inspirational leader or flawed failure?
Sep 17, 202643 min
The forgotten slave traders who shaped Britain
Sep 15, 202636 min
What is ‘Europe’, anyway?
Sep 14, 202636 min
Christianity, conflict and catastrophe: the life of CS Lewis
Sep 13, 202640 min
Was Napoleon III the world's first populist leader?
Sep 10, 202655 min
The Bayeux Tapestry blockbuster at the British Museum
Sep 8, 202645 min
The secrets of our DNA
Sep 7, 202638 min
What's it like to live in a royal palace?
Sep 6, 202636 min
Roman kings: myth, memory and the making of power
Sep 3, 202641 min
Philip Augustus: the Plantagenets’ greatest rival
Sep 1, 202650 min
Laura Ingalls Wilder: life of the week
Aug 31, 202646 min
How bullies shaped 19th-century America
Aug 30, 202642 min
Is there a royal sex scandal hidden in plain sight in the Bayeux tapestry?
Aug 29, 202644 min
Did Britain really 'keep calm and carry on' in WW2?
Aug 27, 202646 min
Did the Catholic Church support Hitler?
Aug 25, 202652 min
Frida Kahlo: life of the week
Aug 24, 202653 min
How the Americas transformed Tudor England
Aug 23, 202635 min
Preview: Master the medieval art of knowing yourself
Aug 22, 202613 min
Have we got ancient women's sexuality all wrong?
Aug 20, 202635 min
Adultery, assassination and Agatha Christie: the dark side of the hotel
Aug 18, 202635 min
Hedy Lamarr: life of the week
Aug 17, 202650 min
How WW2 transformed Asia
Aug 16, 202637 min
Preview: Was Jack the Ripper Queen Victoria's grandson?
Aug 15, 202613 min
How opium became a powerful global commodity
Aug 13, 202644 min
A wild history of partying
Aug 11, 202640 min
Yuri Gagarin: life of the week
Aug 10, 202646 min
How Christianity conquered the Roman empire
Aug 9, 202632 min
The Odyssey’s forgotten epilogue
Aug 8, 202644 min
Why did witches confess?
Aug 6, 202647 min
Inside the Maya storyworld
Aug 4, 202644 min
Zheng Yi Sao: life of the week
Aug 3, 202648 min