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Tom Holland and guests discuss the stories that are Making History

The rise and fall of Syria's largest city, Aleppo, and how the Wild West was tamed.

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01/03/2016

The latest historical and archaeological research.

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08/03/2016

How sex trafficking and moral panic led to the start of the Women's Police Service in 1914

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Helen Castor and guests discuss the stories that are Making History

Was English spoken centuries earlier than people thought? Plus a look at Victorian jokes.

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22/03/2016

Terraced houses, the fame of the Flying Scotsman, and why Easter is a moveable feast.

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29/03/2016

Nazi memorials, the real Darby and Joan, and the story of the Bolsheviks in Dublin 1916.

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02/08/2016

Helen Castor and guests with a new series of the topical history programme.

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09/08/2016

Tom Holland and guests with the history that matters to us today.

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16/08/2016

Helen Castor discusses Brighton's latest seaside attraction and its links to the past.

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Jazz in the Trenches, Woad, Notting Hill Carnival

Tom Holland considers jazz in the trenches and the women behind the Notting Hill Carnival.

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30/08/2016

Helen Castor considers if Wren could have helped destroy St Paul's Cathedral.

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06/09/2016

Tom Holland discusses divorce and betrayal in 1st-century Yorkshire.

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13/09/2016

Tom Holland discusses revolution, fire and a secret war.

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20/09/2016

Helen Castor and guests discuss the Black Death and Victorian tabloids.

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The English Pearl Harbour

Tom Holland on the 350th anniversary of the Medway Raid and Domesday uncovered.

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Zombies in Yorkshire?

Medieval mutilation, whisky smuggling and whether humans are getting older.

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The Stonehenge Tunnel

Digging under Stonehenge, the archaeology of a 1960s estate and China's Belt and Road.

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The Dunkirk Spirit

Dunkirk, Churchill, hermits and the archaeology of play.

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Segregation in wartime Britain

Helen Castor on race in wartime, China's Belt and Road and what makes a good museum.

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Jack Monroe and Rationing in the First World War

Rationing in 1917, Silk Roads, Franklin's last voyage and the history of the duffle coat.

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Hadrian's Wall

Hadrian's Wall, Iron Age origins of Heathrow Airport and a Saxon Burial mound in Slough.

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Being Gay Before Gay Lib

Helen Castor on homosexuality in Victoria's Britain and the history of the 'gig' economy.

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The Charter of the Forest

Tom Holland on the world's oldest environmental charter and Iron Age Heathrow.

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Who was Saint Stephen?

Saint Stephen, martyrdom and an Edwardian feast of festive football.

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1968

The Prague Spring, a French take on our island story, and historical hangovers.

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Acid Attacks

Actor murdering mania, suffragettes and the martial arts, and Top Town History.

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Tasting the Past

Tom Holland on how Romans fed their legions, and the history of street food.

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Rage Against The Machine

Helen Castor on history's forerunners of today's concerns about housing and technology.

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The fight to eradicate polio

Tom Holland on the Coventry polio epidemic, and when Parliament left Westminster.

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Gambling, 主播大秀lessness, Human trafficking

Helen Castor looks back at the gambling crisis of the 18th century.

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