Podcast episode

Should we stop talking about the crusades?.

The golden age of the country house.

Nelson: a life of heroism and scandal.

Medieval make do and mend.

Thomas Cromwell: the triumph and tragedy of Henry VIII's right-hand man.

Gladiator tales.

Lord Lucan: the vanishing earl.

How Stalin won WW2.

Decoding Mary, Queen of Scots.

Telling the story of modern Jerusalem.

Satan & the sabbath: witchhunting in the Basque Country.

Cocaine: a Victorian sensation.

Medieval women: friendship, wanderlust and the medieval hustle.

Chris Packham & Peter Frankopan: can history help tackle the climate crisis?.

Tudor spymaster: the secret machinations of Robert Cecil.

Roman slavery: a brutal life in the ancient empire.

Imperial spectacle: inside Britain's 1924 'Empire Exhibition'.

Why did people kill for Hitler?.

Shopping and snacking: a social history of the high street.

The race to identify all living creatures.

Ordinary Vikings: hidden histories of the Nordic world.

Victorian women detectives.

A hidden history of black civil rights

How did the US get so many guns?

Liberating WW2 Naples: triumph and tragedy.

Churchill's prewar crisis meetings.

Hidden environmental histories of the last 500 years.

The Iranian embassy siege: an SAS hostage drama in London.

Medieval documents in danger.

Our 10,000-year quest for equality.