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Dr Kathryn Ferry answers listener questions on the history of the British seaside holiday – from Victorian bathing machines to Punch and Judy

Professor Julie-Marie Strange answers listener questions on the history of man’s best friend in Britain – from their very first domestication to Victorian dognappings

Lucy Robinson responds to your questions on Britain in the decade of Thatcherism, Live Aid, Bananarama and the rise of the yuppie

Rachel Chrastil answers listener questions on a conflict that scarred the 19th century and had enormous consequences for the 20th

Katrina Navickas answers listener questions on the civil unrest caused by textile workers whose livelihoods were threatened by the innovations of the Industrial Revolution

From criminal sentencing to colonial settlement, Nancy Cushing answers questions on the transportation of British convicts to Australia

Joshua Levine tackles listener questions about the origins of Britain’s most famous special forces unit

Marking the 70th anniversary of the first Everest summit, Jonathan Westaway answers listener questions on the history of expeditions on the mountain

Joan Allen answers listener questions on the working-class mass campaign for political reform

Alwyn Turner answers listener questions on British history in the decade of Major, Blair and Britpop

Peter Heather answers listener questions about the ancient Germanic tribes that shared a frontier with the Roman empire

David Carpenter answers listener questions on the history of Westminster Abbey, which has hosted royal coronations since the Middle Ages

Nicholas Morton charts the rise and fall of the Middle Eastern regions held by the Franks in 12th and 13th centuries

Simon Sebag Montefiore answers listener questions about the history of imperial Russia’s formidable rulers

From daily routine and diet to warfare and survival, Peter Hart answers listener questions about life on the frontline during the First World War

Marc Morris answers listener questions on the history of British castles – from the motte and bailey structures of William the Conqueror to the great stone fortresses of Edward I

Jeremy Black responds to listener questions on the 18th-century conflict that convulsed the globe and helped turn Britain into a world superpower

Ronald Hutton answers listener questions on the long history of paganism

Dan Todman answers your top questions surrounding Britain’s Second World War home front, from evacuees and black market deals to sheltering from bombs in the London underground

Eleanor Janega busts popular myths surrounding women in the Middle Ages, revealing how society was more open-minded than we might initially expect

Professor Christopher Dyer answers listener questions about the daily life of medieval peasants, from diets and dentistry to leisure and life expectancy

Matt Houlbrook answers listener questions about British life in the 1920s and 1930s

Daisy Hay answers listener questions on the rebellious literary movement whose members’ lives were as unconventional as their art

Paul Pettitt answers listener questions on what cave art can reveal about the palaeolithic era