Podcast episode

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?.

Sexuality on trial in colonial America.

Mining history: everything you wanted to know.

Bruisers and bare knuckles: the brutal world of Victorian boxing.

Did Britain really rule the waves?.

The princess who fled Romanov Russia.

Rome's most scandalous emperors.

The royal threesome that rocked Anglo-Saxon England.

Are we celebrating the wrong Magna Carta?.

The forgotten JFK assassination plot.

From dinosaurs to Godzilla: a 15,000-year history of monsters.

How monasteries powered medieval Europe.

George Villiers: from royal favourite to enemy number one.

Agony and ecstasy: the lives of mystics.

How medicine became a moneymaker.

Battle at Fontenoy, AD 841

Carolingians in crisis: the medieval civil war that shaped Europe.

Murder in WW2 London.

Happiness: history of an emotion.

The 1453 fall of Constantinople: capturing the Byzantine capital.

Inside the mind of the Third Reich.