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Victorian
The lost world of Dickens’ London. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
From grimy back alleys to debtors’ prisons, Lee Jackson guides listeners through some of the atmospheric London locations associated with Charles Dickens
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Tom Holland on Rome’s golden age. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Popular historian Tom Holland explains how the Romans maintained the peace across their vast empire in the second century AD
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The Franco-Prussian war: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Rachel Chrastil answers listener questions on a conflict that scarred the 19th century and had enormous consequences for the 20th
General ancient history
Secrets of ancient Chinese tombs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Professor Jessica Rawson delves into the story of ancient Chinese civilisation through an unusual avenue – its tombs
General History
New Zealand: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Professor James Belich answers listener questions on the history of New Zealand
General History
Did our ancestors really think the world was flat?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
From Chinese cosmology to Victorian flat-earthers, James Hannam discusses humanity’s quest to determine the shape of our planet
20th Century
Spanish flu: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Agnes Arnold-Forster answers listener questions about the Spanish flu pandemic – from the symptoms and spread to the shocking death toll
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Women on the front line, from forgotten commanders to cross-dressing soldiers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Sarah Percy reveals some of the roles women have played in military campaigns, from daring revolutionaries to entrepreneurial camp followers
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Mindbending experiments: how drugs shaped modern science. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
From Freud’s experiments with cocaine to doctors sampling chloroform at dinner parties, Mike Jay reveals how scientists and thinkers experimented with drugs in the 19th century
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The great escape: Britain's love affair with the seaside holiday. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
The British were the first to head for the seaside in their thousands. John K Walton reveals how growing prosperity and the birth of the railways brought the delights of donkey rides, peep shows and Punch and Judy within the reach of the masses
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A ring of poisoners: Hungary’s most notorious murders. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Journalist Patti McCracken discusses the “Angel Makers of Nagyrév” – the all-female murder ring whose poisonings shocked early 20th-century Hungary
Medieval
The Mongols: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Nicholas Morton answers listener questions on the nomadic conquerors who changed the course of world history

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Danny BirdStaff Writer, BBC History Magazine

Danny Bird is Content Producer for BBC History Magazine and was previously staff writer for BBC History Revealed. He joined the History team in 2022. Fascinated with the past since childhood, Danny completed his History BA at the University of Sheffield, developing a special interest in the Spanish Civil War and the Paris Commune. He subsequently gained his History MA from University College London, studying at its School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES)