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Victorian

Victorians podcast episodes

A group of children in early‑20th‑century clothing gather on a dirt street in a working‑class neighbourhood. Several of the children are outlined in purple against the monochrome scene.

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The Victorians were facing a population crisis, until this ‘obscene’ invention turned out to be the solution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Victorian coin with Queen Victoria’s profile placed beside a horseshoe and clover, traditional symbols of luck.

Victorian

Were the Victorians the luckiest people in history?

Illustration of a demon breathing fire with springs on his shoes jumping and scaring two women

Victorian

Spring-Heeled Jack: the fire-breathing phantom that terrorised Victorian England

Black-and-white photograph of Victorian women and children gathered in a courtyard, with washing hanging overhead and chickens wandering across the ground.

Victorian

Think you know the Victorian era? These 31 facts will prove you wrong

Collage of 19th-century crime illustrations tinted pink, showing figures fighting, a man firing a pistol, and a woman lying on the floor.

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"She was mad with the acrid lust of blood": 6 murders that shocked Victorian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A boxing match in A Thousand Blows alongside an illustration of a Victorian boxing ring

Victorian

A Thousand Blows: the real history behind the Victorian boxing drama

Victorian cricket. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Cricket, cocaine and cocoa houses: 5 ways Victorians spent their free time. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

History's Greatest Scandals : The Victorians | A HistoryExtra podcast series

Close-up of an open Egyptian sarcophagus displaying a wrapped mummy model inside next to its ornate, gilded lid

Victorian

Would you eat an Egyptian mummy? Here's why the Victorians did exactly that

An ancient Greek red-figure pottery scene showing several figures, including an archer drawing a bow and others seated or standing nearby (Photo via Getty)

Ancient Greece

Series 10The Odyssey. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ancient Greece

Beyond the podcast: the Odyssey

Statue of Queen Victoria with a humorous added cartoon smile and speech bubble reading “We are amused.”

Victorian

Think the Victorians were prudes? Their filthiest jokes will shock you

1858 Punch satirical cartoon titled 'The Silent Highwayman,' showing the Grim Reaper rowing on a polluted River Thames in front of London landmarks

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Victorian London's poop explosion: why even Queen Victoria couldn't escape the stench. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A woman in early 20th‑century clothing sits at a desk using a candlestick telephone, holding the receiver to her ear and speaking into the mouthpiece

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Ringing the changes: how the telephone transformed Victorian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In December 1929, investigator and ghost hunter Harry Price demonstrates an electric control device he designed to monitor a medium’s movements during séances. (Photo by Alamy)

Victorian

A Victorian ghost hunter investigated Britain’s most haunted house. This is what he found

Gold funerary mask from the Asante kingdom, shown against a black background, with visible damage and intricate facial detailing.

Victorian

The Victorians looted these precious treasures. What happens next is still uncertain

Tudor

Beyond the podcastReformation: Faith and fury

A medieval-style illustration of plague victims being examined is overlaid with the text “Black Death: Beyond the Podcast.”

Medieval

Beyond the podcastThe Black Death

Workhouses were meant to be unpleasant. Inmates worked hard (like these women hanging out laundry c1880). (Photo by Sean Sexton/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Victorian

Victorian daily life: what was it like for 'ordinary' Victorians?

Georgian

Beyond the podcastAmerican Revolutionary War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A black and white illustration shows a man in smart clothes slumped in a chair. To the left, a woman in a long skirt and jacket bends over him, taking his pocket watch from him

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Victorian Britain's fearless female felons. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A close-up of an ancient Egyptian stone relief carving of a female figure in profile, wearing a striped headdress. The image has warm amber and brown tones against a dark background. Bold dark text reading "SUNDAY SERIES" appears at the top, with "THE WORLD OF CLEOPATRA" in bold white text on a dark banner directly below it (Photo via Getty)

Ancient Egypt

Series 8 The World of Cleopatra. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Roman

Season 4Pompeii

General History

Beyond the Podcast

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History's Greatest Scandals : The Victorians. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A close-up of an ancient Egyptian stone relief carving of a female figure in profile, wearing a traditiona headdress. The image has warm amber and brown tones. Bold white text reading "CLEOPATRA" appears at the top, and "BEYOND THE PODCAST" is displayed in a banner with an arrow at the bottom (Photo via Getty)

Ancient Egypt

Beyond the podcastThe World of Cleopatra

Medieval

Beyond the podcastRichard III: Hero or villain?

Elizabethan

Season 6Elizabeth I

A sketch showing a woman surrounded by men. One man is putting a hood over her head and another is reading from a book next to her

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These are four of the most brutal Victorian murders. Were women really the perpetrators?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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