Popular history series where the past connects with the present.
Radio 4,路198 episodes
Saint Stephen, martyrdom and an Edwardian feast of festive football.
Tom Holland on the world's oldest environmental charter and Iron Age Heathrow.
Helen Castor on homosexuality in Victoria's Britain and the history of the 'gig' economy.
Hadrian's Wall, Iron Age origins of Heathrow Airport and a Saxon Burial mound in Slough.
Rationing in 1917, Silk Roads, Franklin's last voyage and the history of the duffle coat.
Helen Castor on race in wartime, China's Belt and Road and what makes a good museum.
Dunkirk, Churchill, hermits and the archaeology of play.
Digging under Stonehenge, the archaeology of a 1960s estate and China's Belt and Road.
Medieval mutilation, whisky smuggling and whether humans are getting older.
Tom Holland on the 350th anniversary of the Medway Raid and Domesday uncovered.
Helen Castor and guests discuss the Black Death and Victorian tabloids.
Tom Holland discusses revolution, fire and a secret war.
Tom Holland discusses divorce and betrayal in 1st-century Yorkshire.
Helen Castor considers if Wren could have helped destroy St Paul's Cathedral.
Tom Holland considers jazz in the trenches and the women behind the Notting Hill Carnival.
Helen Castor discusses Brighton's latest seaside attraction and its links to the past.
Tom Holland and guests with the history that matters to us today.
Helen Castor and guests with a new series of the topical history programme.
Nazi memorials, the real Darby and Joan, and the story of the Bolsheviks in Dublin 1916.
Terraced houses, the fame of the Flying Scotsman, and why Easter is a moveable feast.
Was English spoken centuries earlier than people thought? Plus a look at Victorian jokes.
How sex trafficking and moral panic led to the start of the Women's Police Service in 1914
The latest historical and archaeological research.
The rise and fall of Syria's largest city, Aleppo, and how the Wild West was tamed.
A date with Dan Snow, mummies in Wiltshire, and why the Cold War is hotting up.
Mary Beard's big date, Dad's Army debunked, Black Birmingham on film and library revival.
Helen Castor chairs a Historians' Question Time from the Chalke Valley History Festival.
Tom Holland and guests discuss 1920s shanty towns, radical Warrington and Roman beards.
Helen Castor and guests discuss medieval theatre and Cromwell's navy.
Tom Holland and guests discuss Aethelwold, Edmund and Catholic martyrs.