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Travels Through Time is a history podcast hosted by Travels Through Time. It has 100 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.

In each episode we ask a leading historian, novelist or public figure the tantalising question, "If you could travel back through time, which year would you visit?" Once they have made their choice, then they guide us through that year in three telling scenes. We have visited Pompeii in 79AD, Jerusalem in 1187, the Tower of London in 1483, Colonial America in 1776, 10 Downing Street in 1940 and the Moon in 1969. Chosen as one of the Evening Standard's Best History Podcasts of 2020. Presented weekly by Sunday Times bestselling writer Peter Moore, award-winning historian Violet Moller and Artemis Irvine.

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Catherine Ostler: The Renoir Girls (1881)

2

[From the Archive] Philip Stephens: Britain Alone (1962)

3

Nicholas Walton: The End of the Dutch Empire (1950)

4

Veronica Buckley: The Hapsburgs and the French Revolution (1790)

5

Marc Mierowsky: Daniel Defoe the English Spy (1706)

6

Sean Cunningham: King Henry VII and a Year of Peril (1497)

7

Peter Moore: The Duke of York Scandal (1809)

8

Charles King: The Premiere of Handel's Messiah (1742)

9

Tharik Hussain: Córdoba in the Islamic Golden Age (929)

10

Sarah Wise: The Undesirables (1947)

11

[From the archive] Neil Oliver: Skara Brae (2,500 BC)

12

Vivaldi Special. Hannah French on The Four Seasons

13

Nikolai Tolstoy on Patrick O'Brian

14

S.C. Gwynne: R101 – The World’s Largest Flying Machine (1930)

15

Peter Moore: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

16

[From the archive] Philip Hoare: Albert and the Whale (1520)

17

[From the archive] Bernard Cornwell: The Battle of Waterloo (1815)

18

Lady Hale: The Rights of Women (1925)

19

[Live] Flora Fraser: Pretty Young Rebel (1746)

20

Mike Jay: Psychonauts (1885)

21

David Veevers: How the World Took On the British Empire (1660)

22

Leah Redmond Chang: Renaissance Queens and the Price of Power (1559)

23

Andrew Spira: Botticelli, Perugino and Dürer (1500)

24

Serhii Plokhy: The Collapse of the Soviet Union (1991)

25

[From the archives] Craig Brown: Beatlemania (1963)

26

Honor Cargill-Martin: The Notorious Empress Messalina (48 AD)

27

Tom Whipple: The Battle of the Beams (1940)

28

Simon Winchester: Knowing What We Know (1924)

29

Rebecca Struthers: Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots and Watchmaking History (1572)

30

Luke Turner: Men at War (1943)

31

Amy Jeffs: Tales from Medieval England (1327)

32

Nicholas Orme: A Year of Great Promise (1480)

33

[From the archives] Jane Rogoyska: The Katyń Massacre (1940)

34

John Darlington: The Port Royal Earthquake (1692)

35

Katja Hoyer: Beyond The Wall (1973)

36

Company of Heroes 3: David Milne (1942-4)

37

Sarah Bakewell: Petrarch and Boccaccio (1348*)

38

Nandini Das: The first English embassy to India (1616)

39

[From the archives] Ariana Neumann: When Time Stopped (1944)

40

Nicholas Spencer: The Great Debate (1860)

41

Christopher Hadley: Roman Roads and the Invasion of Britain (51 AD)

42

Don Hollway: The Year of Three Battles (1066)

43

[From the archives] Rebecca Wragg Sykes: Neanderthals (Eemian)

44

James Hall: Michelangelo and Leonardo in Florence (1504)

45

Tania Branigan: Mao and the Cultural Revolution (1966)

46

Marion Turner: The Wife of Bath (1397)

47

John Sellars: Aristotle (347 BC)

48

Simon Akam: The Changing of the Guard (2006)

49

[From the archives] Diarmaid MacCulloch: Thomas Cromwell (1536)

50

Tim Clayton: James Gillray and a Revolution in Satire (1792)

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