The top ten programmes to listen to from In Our Time's History archive.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Boxer Rebellion in the summer of 1900.
Melvyn Bragg examines the Field of the Cloth of Gold, and Tudor conspicuous consumption.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Industrial Revolution.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revolutionary Jewish leader Judas Maccabeus.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Maya civilization in central America.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Medici family, rulers of Renaissance Florence.
The rise and eventual downfall of the Roman Republic which survived for 500 years.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history and myth of the Samurai.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Statue of Liberty. .
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Greek historian Thucydides.
