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The astonishing laws of medieval Wales
Jun 28, 202645 min
Inside the Declaration of Independence
Jun 27, 202632 min
Cannibalism, heartbreak and Madame Guillotine: George Forster's extraordinary life
Jun 25, 202643 min
Charlotte Brontë's life through clothes
Jun 23, 202636 min
Emma Goldman: life of the week
Jun 22, 202640 min
Stealing the V2 rocket: Britain’s secret WW2 intelligence coup
Jun 21, 202631 min
The road to the American Revolutionary War
Jun 20, 202643 min
The protestant missionaries that didn't change the world
Jun 18, 202643 min
Strangers and aliens in Tudor England
Jun 16, 202643 min
Alexander the Great: life of the week
Jun 15, 202654 min
What myths do we tell about royal women?
Jun 14, 202650 min
Cleopatra’s death – and cultural afterlife
Jun 13, 202638 min
Masters of disinformation: how British spies played dirty in the Cold War
Jun 11, 202634 min
Churchill's toughest decision
Jun 9, 202635 min
Henry Paget: life of the week
Jun 8, 202643 min
The hidden history of female sexual pleasure
Jun 7, 202648 min
Why Cleopatra was more than a bewitching beauty
Jun 6, 202641 min
Better than Bridgerton: the real Georgian masquerade
Jun 4, 202649 min
Weimar's descent from democracy to barbarism
Jun 2, 202639 min
Alan Turing: life of the week
Jun 1, 202645 min
The self-made Marilyn Monroe
May 31, 202649 min
Cleopatra’s bloody rise to power
May 30, 202629 min
Gullible Georgians: hoaxes in the Enlightenment period
May 28, 202650 min
Spies, radicals and deportees: one hotel in wartime Paris
May 26, 202640 min
Timur: life of the week
May 25, 202637 min
How Orkney became the centre of Viking Age violence
May 24, 202641 min
Young Cleopatra: the making of a queen
May 23, 202629 min
A history of Christian sacrifice
May 21, 202636 min
Redefining historical mothers
May 19, 202646 min
Lady Jane Grey: life of the week
May 18, 202648 min
The peacemakers of WW2
May 17, 202641 min
The long shadow of the Black Death
May 16, 202637 min
The secret plot to end Scottish independence
May 14, 202634 min
How did communism conquer China?
May 12, 202644 min
Olaf Tryggvason: life of the week
May 11, 202646 min
The death of Adolf Hitler
May 10, 202635 min
Fear and faith: coping with the Black Death
May 9, 202645 min
Attenborough: a life on screen
May 7, 202646 min
A worker's eye-view of ancient Rome
May 5, 202638 min
Niccolò Machiavelli: life of the week
May 4, 202649 min
How to pull off a Georgian dinner party
May 3, 202633 min
The Black Death: a global contagion
May 2, 202634 min
George Orwell's final chapter
Apr 30, 202640 min
Was Elizabeth II's reign a golden age?
Apr 28, 202637 min
Johannes Vermeer: life of the week
Apr 27, 202642 min
When did Roman Britain really end?
Apr 26, 202632 min
How the Vikings reshaped Anglo-Saxon England
Apr 25, 202635 min
Preview: The surprising history of pizza
Apr 24, 202614 min
A short history of running
Apr 23, 202635 min
Mary Beard on why the classics still matter
Apr 21, 202641 min