World History Podcast

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Charles Emmerson (Photo by James Hill NYT Moscow)

The birth of the modern world

Detail of the processional frieze Ara Pacis Augustae, Rome. (Photo by Alamy)

Politics, Roman style

Eleanor of Aquitaine's tomb in Fontevraud Abbey, Loire, France (Photo by Alamy)

Eleanor of Aquitaine: myth and reality

German submarine on mission in the Atlantic ocean, 1942/1943 (Photo by ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Second World War

World War Two’s secret heroes

Three elderly men on a bench in London's Southall, circa 1980. (Photo by Getty Images)

Asians in 1980s Britain

Edwardian hat pin head found on the Thames shore. (Photo by Bloomsbury)

Secrets of the river

Lord Louis Mountbatten with his fiancee Edwina Ashley in 1922. (Photo by Getty Images)

The Mountbattens: success and scandal

A waitress working behind the counter at the first ever Lyons tea shop to be opened in London, 1953

The teashop empire

Nicola Tallis photographed by David Hampton in October 2019

Margaret Beaufort: mother of the Tudors

Chinese propaganda poster, c1969. (Photo by Getty images)

Maoism

Statue of Liberty. (Photo by Dreamstime)

A history of the United States

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The King: Henry V on film

The American aircraft carrier USS Yorktown is being bombed in the Battle of Midway, June 1942. (Photo by Corbis via Getty Images)

Second World War

Midway: the Pacific War on screen