TV and radio

The Importance of Being Oscar. (Image by BBC/IWC Media)

History TV and radio: what’s on next week? (20–26 April 2019)

The food served at the wedding of Joffrey Baratheon and Margaery Tyrell may be inspired by accounts of ancient Roman excess, says Ayelet Haimson Lushkov. (© Home Box Office, Inc/Sky Atlantic)

Power plays and scheming queens: the ancient history behind Game of Thrones

Call the Midwife

14 of the best historical TV shows on Netflix

Clockwise from top left: Olivia Colman as Queen Anne in 'The Favourite'; Matt Smith as Prince Philip in 'The Crown'; Saoirse Ronan in 'Mary Queen of Scots'; a colourised scene from 'They Shall Not Grow Old'. (Images: © 2018 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Robert Viglasky / Netflix | © 2018 Focus Features LLC | WingNut Films/Peter Jackson. Original black and white film © IWM)

History Extra Film and TV Awards, 2019

Napoleon Bonaparte, published in London, 1909. (The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Napoleon Bonaparte: facts about his life, death and career

Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle. (Image Credit: BBC/Douglas Road Productions/Carlton Dixon)

“A platform to ask ‘was it really like that?’”: Sir Lenny Henry on new Windrush drama

Danny Dyer’s Right Royal Family. (Image Credit: BBC/Wall to Wall Media/Jack Coathupe)

Danny Dyer is “making people think again” about history, say historians

Christmas historical TV (clockwise): The Crown, Mindhunter, Vikings and The Long Song. (Images Netflix/BBC)

12 historical series to watch this Christmas

Actor Errol Flynn as Robin Hood in the film 'The Adventures of Robin Hood', 1938. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

Robin Hood: 3 films

British author Bernard Cornwell, author of 'The Last Kingdom' and 'Sharpe' series. (Photo by Daniel Sorabji via Getty Images)

Bernard Cornwell on writing historical fiction and his blockbuster series The Last Kingdom: your questions answered

Bernard Cornwell. (Photo by Felix Clay)

Bernard Cornwell on The Last Kingdom

6th August 1965: A scene from 'Mission to the Unknown', an episode of the popular British television sci-fi series 'Doctor Who', shows a meeting in the Dalek city on Kembel, 6th August 1965. Representatives of the seven galaxies meet and approve the Daleks' plan to conquer Earth.(Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Doctor Who through the ages

Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark. The BBC television drama is putting Cornwall’s coastline at risk of "over-tourism” as visitors flock to the area to visit the show's scenic filming locations, tourism chiefs have warned. (Photo by BBC/Mammoth Screen/Mike Hogan)

The ‘Poldark effect’ and 7 other historical TV shows that have tourists flocking to Britain

Ross Poldark in London in the BBC's drama. The capital city was described in contemporary magazines and newspapers as the "vortex of dissipation", says Hannah Greig. (Image Credit: BBC/Mammoth Screen/Robert Viglasky)

From politics to pleasure gardens: the real history behind Poldark’s 18th-century London