Podcast episode

What caused the Irish Famine?.

Public vs private: history behind closed doors.

The rise of James VI & I: when Britain went global.

How the English took Manhattan.

The 93 penises of the Bayeux Tapestry.

Sex lives of the Anglo-Saxons.

The great siege of Malta: Knights Hospitaller vs the Ottoman empire.

Suleyman the Magnificent's bid for world domination.

Lexington and Concord: 250 years on.

The botanists of besieged Leningrad.

Could the US have won the Vietnam war?.

The women's orchestra of Auschwitz.

JFK: the man behind the myths.

Simon Schama on the Holocaust.

A Nazi in Chile: did an SS commander work for Pinochet?.

Tariffs and trade wars: a history of economic warfare.

Why we shouldn't see museum artefacts as 'stolen'.

Body in the basement: Dr Crippen and the 'crime of the century'.

The Philadelphia gun-runners who supplied the IRA.

Why Africa's history is more than just the slave trade.

Handel's Messiah: the scandalous birth of a classical masterpiece.

Women killers of the early modern era.

Women's hidden role in religious reformation.

Wolfmen and amazons: why did the Greeks and Romans demonise their neighbours?.

Reform and rebellion in the reign of Henry III.

Cheese-rolling, horse skulls & morris dancers: Britain's strange folk customs.

What's the state of women's history in 2025?.

Medieval murder mystery: who killed King James III?.

Medieval murders most foul.

What did the Romans wear?.