Making History Podcast
Popular history series where the past connects with the present.
Episodes to download
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Who was Saint Stephen?
Boxing Day 2017
Saint Stephen, martyrdom and an Edwardian feast of festive football.
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The Charter of the Forest
Tue 1 Aug 2017
Tom Holland on the world's oldest environmental charter and Iron Age Heathrow.
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Being Gay Before Gay Lib
Tue 25 Jul 2017
Helen Castor on homosexuality in Victoria's Britain and the history of the 'gig' economy.
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Hadrian's Wall
Tue 18 Jul 2017
Hadrian's Wall, Iron Age origins of Heathrow Airport and a Saxon Burial mound in Slough.
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Jack Monroe and Rationing in the First World War
Tue 11 Jul 2017
Rationing in 1917, Silk Roads, Franklin's last voyage and the history of the duffle coat.
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Segregation in wartime Britain
Tue 4 Jul 2017
Helen Castor on race in wartime, China's Belt and Road and what makes a good museum.
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The Stonehenge Tunnel
Tue 20 Jun 2017
Digging under Stonehenge, the archaeology of a 1960s estate and China's Belt and Road.
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Zombies in Yorkshire?
Tue 13 Jun 2017
Medieval mutilation, whisky smuggling and whether humans are getting older.
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The English Pearl Harbour
Tue 6 Jun 2017
Tom Holland on the 350th anniversary of the Medway Raid and Domesday uncovered.
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30/08/2016
Tue 30 Aug 2016
Helen Castor considers if Wren could have helped destroy St Paul's Cathedral.
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Jazz in the Trenches, Woad, Notting Hill Carnival
Tue 23 Aug 2016
Tom Holland considers jazz in the trenches and the women behind the Notting Hill Carnival.
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16/08/2016
Tue 16 Aug 2016
Helen Castor discusses Brighton's latest seaside attraction and its links to the past.
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02/08/2016
Tue 2 Aug 2016
Helen Castor and guests with a new series of the topical history programme.
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29/03/2016
Tue 29 Mar 2016
Nazi memorials, the real Darby and Joan, and the story of the Bolsheviks in Dublin 1916.
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22/03/2016
Tue 22 Mar 2016
Terraced houses, the fame of the Flying Scotsman, and why Easter is a moveable feast.
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Helen Castor and guests discuss the stories that are Making History
Tue 15 Mar 2016
Was English spoken centuries earlier than people thought? Plus a look at Victorian jokes.
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08/03/2016
Tue 8 Mar 2016
How sex trafficking and moral panic led to the start of the Women's Police Service in 1914
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