Podcast episode

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.

Women's bodies: an unreliable history.

Elizabethan London: a multicultural melting pot.

Strange stories of medieval saints.

What is the greatest historical movie of all time?.

How pigs caused a stink in medieval England.

Secret forceps & pig bladders: medical objects through time.

How Roman roads transformed Europe.

Hotel Lux: the guesthouse of world revolution.

How the compass became a political weapon.

Harold Wilson: the rock 'n' roll prime minister.

Who is buried at Sutton Hoo?.