Podcast

18th August 1819: 'The Massacre of Peterloo or Britons Strike Home', by George Cruikshank (Photo by Spencer Arnold/Getty Images)

The Peterloo Massacre

Jewelled terminal of aestel, The Alfred Jewel. (Photo by Alamy)

Anglo-Saxon treasures

Thomas Cromwell (Illustrated by Sarah Young)

Thomas Cromwell reconsidered

Sir Winston Churchill leaves his London home for Chartwell, Kent. (Photo by PA-Images)

A new life of Churchill

Director Peter Jackson in 2015 in Beijing, China (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)

First World War

Peter Jackson on the First World War

Wreck of Fishing boat, Iceland. (Photo by Dreamstime)

Adventures in Iceland

Treaty Of Paris, 1783, by Benjamin West (Photo by Granger/REX/Shutterstock)

Brexit and American independence

Philippe Sands tells the story behind his new BBC podcast and Radio 4 series, Intrigue: The Ratline. (Photo by Jillian Edelstein/Camera Press)

The Nazi on the run

St Basil's Cathdral, Moscow. (Photo by Dreamstime)

The spy who changed the Cold War

Lucy Worsley. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

Queen Victoria by Lucy Worsley

Neil Oliver. (Photo by Bill Osment)

Neil Oliver’s history of the British Isles

A Battle of Britain type 'scramble', circa 1940. An improved Spitfire is pushed onto the runway by a group of pilots from the squadron. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Second World War

The good war?

Sam Willis and James Daybell. (Photo by David Hampton for BBC History Magazine)

The extraordinary history of ordinary things

(Photo by David Hampton)

A half-hour history of Europe