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The generational shift from home births to hospitals

[4th June 2013]

BBC's Chris Bowlby looks at the history of British maternity care

Why the land of Dracula still stokes British anxieties

[14th May 2013]

Chris Bowlby explores past and present attitudes to Romanian and Bulgarian immigration

Britain agonises over its nuclear deterrent – again

[2nd May 2013]

Chris Bowlby discusses historical anxieties surrounding Britain's nuclear deterrents

What is the nature of Margaret Thatcher's legacy?

[12th April 2013]

Following the death of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, historians share their views on her legacy

The story behind Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home

[3rd April 2013]

Suzannah Lipscomb examines the Victorian obsession with the home as a safe haven of domesticity, and explains how, in many cases, Victorian homes were anything but...

What does the discovery of Richard III's remains mean for history?

[14th March 2013]

The power of noise

[14th March 2013]

Ahead of his new BBC Radio 4 series, David Hendy explores the history of noise

The battle to be the party of ‘One Nation’

[12th March 2013]

Chris Bowlby examines the history of 'One Nation' politics

Getting to grips with ‘troubled’ families has never been easy

[13th February 2013]

Chris Bowlby examines the historic treatment of 'troubled' families in Britain

Treachery: What really brought down Richard III

[4th February 2013]

A new project has been launched to locate the mortal remains of King Richard III, more than 500 years after he was buried in the, now lost, church of the Franciscan Friary in Leicester. David Hipshon, author of a book on the controversial Yorkist monarch, discusses his theories for the reason for Richard’s death at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485

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