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Hedy Lamarr: life of the week
How WW2 transformed Asia
Preview: Was Jack the Ripper Queen Victoria's grandson?
How opium became a powerful global commodity
A wild history of partying
Yuri Gagarin: life of the week
How Christianity conquered the Roman empire
The Odyssey’s forgotten epilogue
Why did witches confess?
Inside the Maya storyworld
Zheng Yi Sao: life of the week
The Fifth Crusade: triumph, disaster and the battle for Egypt
Is the Odyssey myth or memory?
Renaissance Italy's firearm revolution
How blood banks saved Britain in WW2
Pericles: life of the week
Did Churchill save the monarchy?
Gods and monsters: the hidden stories of the Odyssey
Preview: Was Elizabeth I one of history’s greatest leaders?
The Bayeux Tapestry's secret code of tyranny and injustice
How to survive a day in the 14th century
Bess of Hardwick: life of the week
Alliance and acrimony: a history of Jewish-Muslim relations
Who wrote the Odyssey?
1966: The World Cup that changed a nation
How Rome really conquered Britain
Edward Colston: life of the week
Was Elizabeth Báthory really a serial killer?
What did the American Revolution really achieve?
The captain's wife who took command
What could you eat in Georgian London?
Pablo Picasso: life of the week
When football became a weapon of the Cold War
How Britain lost America
A history of the US in 100 unexpected objects
An A-Z history of the English alphabet
Abigail Adams: life of the week
The astonishing laws of medieval Wales
Inside the Declaration of Independence
Cannibalism, heartbreak and Madame Guillotine: George Forster's extraordinary life
Charlotte Brontë's life through clothes
Emma Goldman: life of the week
Stealing the V2 rocket: Britain’s secret WW2 intelligence coup
The road to the American Revolutionary War
The protestant missionaries that didn't change the world
Strangers and aliens in Tudor England
Alexander the Great: life of the week
What myths do we tell about royal women?
Cleopatra’s death – and cultural afterlife
Masters of disinformation: how British spies played dirty in the Cold War
Churchill's toughest decision
Henry Paget: life of the week
The hidden history of female sexual pleasure
EWhy Cleopatra was more than a bewitching beauty
Better than Bridgerton: the real Georgian masquerade
Weimar's descent from democracy to barbarism
Alan Turing: life of the week
The self-made Marilyn Monroe
Cleopatra’s bloody rise to power
Gullible Georgians: hoaxes in the Enlightenment period
Spies, radicals and deportees: one hotel in wartime Paris
Timur: life of the week
How Orkney became the centre of Viking Age violence
Young Cleopatra: the making of a queen
A history of Christian sacrifice
Redefining historical mothers
Lady Jane Grey: life of the week
The peacemakers of WW2
The long shadow of the Black Death
The secret plot to end Scottish independence
How did communism conquer China?
Olaf Tryggvason: life of the week
The death of Adolf Hitler
Fear and faith: coping with the Black Death
Attenborough: a life on screen
A worker's eye-view of ancient Rome
Niccolò Machiavelli: life of the week
How to pull off a Georgian dinner party
The Black Death: a global contagion
George Orwell's final chapter
Was Elizabeth II's reign a golden age?
Johannes Vermeer: life of the week
When did Roman Britain really end?
How the Vikings reshaped Anglo-Saxon England
Preview: The surprising history of pizza
A short history of running
Mary Beard on why the classics still matter
Elizabeth II: life of the week
Retracing Eleanor of Castile's final journey
How Alfred the Great saved the Anglo-Saxons from the Vikings
How to find a billion-dollar shipwreck
A fantastical history of fairies
Aud the Deep-Minded: life of the week
How Tudor London inspired literary genius
The rise of Alfred the Great
Stalin's murderous vendetta against Trotsky
A new take on the battle of Hastings
Mrs Beeton: life of the week
The battle of the Arctic: the overlooked crucible of WW2
How the Vikings pushed Anglo-Saxon England to the brink
How to stay healthy in the Middle Ages
Europe's Muslim history
Attila the Hun: life of the week
Captured by Barbary corsairs: an Englishwoman's extraordinary tale
Was Elizabeth I's reign really a 'golden age'?
Spy, hero, rebel, traitor: the story of Roger Casement
The relentless rise of the mafia
Harriet Martineau: life of the week
Sores, sweat and secretions: the pox in early modern London
Elizabeth’s enemies: plots, rivals and the Spanish Armada
Britain and the looted African gold
The devastating Jewish revolt against the Roman empire
Culture and conflict: a historical tour of Dublin
How Rasputin helped doom the Romanovs
Elizabeth I: a woman in a man’s world
Life on the mean streets of 19th-century London
Trailblazers and troublemakers: women who made French history
Vladimir Lenin: life of the week
Why Britons rejected fascism in the 1930s
Young Elizabeth I: the making of a queen
A poetic history of England
The hidden history behind Mount Rushmore
Juana Inés de la Cruz: life of the week
The forgotten wars that redefined Europe
Does Magna Carta matter today?
Slavery in the Islamic world
The real women behind Europe's greatest legends
Thomas Edison: life of the week
Following the footsteps of a WW2 prisoner of war
Magna Carta: why didn't King John keep his word?
How to be a Victorian
"The streets will run with blood!": the uprising that shook Victorian Britain
Pocahontas: life of the week
The ruthless revolution that made Britain great
The Magna Carta myth
Terrible puns and filthy limericks: the Victorian sense of humour
EWhat your hands say about you – according to history
Thomas More: life of the week
Going on strike in ancient Rome
Magna Carta: king v barons
Untold LGBTQ stories of the National Trust
Why Greenwich is the home of time
James Gillray: life of the week
Churchill and de Gaulle: a strange relationship
Why Pompeii's tragedy still captivates us today
The United States and Latin America: a turbulent history
History's most mysterious manuscripts
Francisco Franco: life of the week
How grim was life on Hitler's U-boats?
How ancient Pompeii was rediscovered
Why Belgian agents risked their lives spying for Britain
How tanks redefined warfare
Robert McNamara: life of the week
The road to the Holocaust
The final days of Pompeii
Life in the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain
The hidden history of US immigration detention
Emperor Hirohito: life of the week
Secrets of the Romans' spectacular success
Before the volcano: life in ancient Pompeii
How do you solve a problem like Napoleon?
What does history teach us about protest?
Hatshepsut: life of the week
Tragedy and triumph: a 500-year history of Mexico
Jane Austen’s final chapter – and lasting legacy
Prophetesses & she-preachers of the 17th century
New Year's Eve, newts and Nessie: a history of British folklore
Augustus: life of the week
Inside the Viking battle of the genders
A house of one’s own: Jane Austen’s ‘golden years’
Æthelstan: the king who made England
Did the WW1 Christmas truce really happen?
Father Christmas: life of the week
When was the best time in English history to be alive?
“I am to flirt my last”: Jane Austen’s twenties
The secret propaganda war against the Nazis
The many faces of James VI & I
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: life of the week
A short history of ghost hunting
Becoming Jane Austen
Ghosts, gods & sea monsters: a supernatural history of the Atlantic
The summer that changed everything for the Kennedys
Margaret Beaufort: life of the week
Idi Amin's willing helpers
“You can’t kill and maim with impunity”: the powerful legacy of Nuremberg
Assassins vs Templars
WW2's Tunisian campaign: the Stalingrad of Africa
Empress Matilda: life of the week
How warhorses transformed medieval England
Did the Nazis get a fair trial?
Forgotten female secret agents of WW2
What causes cultures to decline and fall?
Christopher Marlowe: life of the week
Uprising: the Civil Wars untangled
The Nazis’ crimes laid bare
What does Hitler’s DNA really tell us?
Mutilated corpses and undead mothers-in-law: vampire epidemics through history
The problem with poo: a millennium of manure
James Garfield: life of the week
A new history of multicultural Britain
What should we do with the Nazis? The road to the Nuremberg Trials
Who stole the Tudor crown?
The librarian who stole KGB secrets
Nellie Bly: life of the week
The improbable alliance that defeated Hitler
Remember, remember: The legacy of the Gunpowder Plot
Five partitions that shaped South Asia
Crystal balls & contacting angels: predicting the future in early modern England
Giuseppe Garibaldi: life of the week
A day in the life of a gladiator
What if the Gunpowder Plot had succeeded?
Bodies, bones & overflowing churchyards: a history of graveyards
Myspace and MTV: how will future historians study the 21st century?
Malcolm X: life of the week
Ghosts, grief and the paranormal
How the Gunpowder Plot unravelled
Sex and sensationalism: a history of the tabloids
11th-century Europe: not just the Norman Conquest
William Shakespeare: life of the week
Tudor life with Ruth Goodman
Who laid the fuse for the Gunpowder Plot?
Reagan's plan to 'make America great again'
How enslaved people fought for freedom across the Atlantic
Aneurin Bevan: life of the week
Bandits & blasphemers: crime in 17th century Scotland
The Normans: everything you wanted to know
How Julius Caesar's funeral drama fuelled the mob
The dark side of Samuel Pepys
Margaret Tudor: life of the week
Britain's female slaveowners: the heiresses who made fortunes from enslavement
Roman homes: everything you wanted to know
Preview: Should historians be celebrities?
Queer life in Georgian Britain
Breaking news! How stories spread in early modern Europe
Robert Peel: life of the week
The German Peasants' War: a summer of fire and blood
Art Deco: everything you wanted to know
America in Korea: a failed occupation?
The real Miss Moneypennys: the secret history of Britain's female spies
Andrew Carnegie: life of the week
Wages for housework: the daring 1970s campaign that challenged women's roles
Ancient Roman theatre: everything you wanted to know
Haiti's first and only king
How the Cold War made the modern world
Alva Vanderbilt: life of the week
How women were erased from economic history
The Phoenicians: everything you wanted to know
Black women and the fight for human rights
Soviet dissidents who challenged the Kremlin
El Cid: life of the week
Burying the enemy: commemorating the world wars' fallen foes
The Mughal empire: everything you wanted to know
The Amazons: wonder-women of the ancient world
How did the Vikings shape Russia and Ukraine?
William the Conqueror: life of the week
Why the Maginot Line couldn't save France in WW2
Crime fiction history: everything you wanted to know
How Christianity came to dominate the Roman world
The spy next door: Moscow's century-long plot to infiltrate the west
Edward the Confessor: life of the week
Britain and the Caribbean: from slavery to Black Lives Matter
Nationalism: everything you wanted to know
Preview: The forgers who faked a fortune
From dodos to 'lost' tribes: a history of extinction
Europe's last pagans
VJ Day and the story of women's football: history behind the headlines
The tangled legacies of two Americas
The Paris Commune: everything you wanted to know
VJ Day: why don't we talk about WW2 in Asia?
Zoot suits, mashers & New Romantics: the evolution of the dandy
Mary of Modena: life of the week
Arson, murder and goddesses: secrets of a Seventh Wonder of the Ancient World
Frontier life: everything you wanted to know
Forgotten stories from South Asian history
Was the atomic bomb necessary to end war with Japan?
JMW Turner: life of the week
Hiroshima: in the shadow of the bomb
WW2 evacuees: everything you wanted to know
Queen Victoria's secret love affair
The 300-year battle over free speech
Erik the Red: life of the week
Power & terror: a history of the nuclear age
The Minoans: everything you wanted to know
Fun, fear and flatbread: childhood in ancient Rome
Iron Mountain: the conspiracy that duped America
Bayeux Tapestry politics & natural disasters: history behind the headlines
Deadly bellringing and fatal bacon: grisly accidental Tudor deaths
Beer history: everything you wanted to know
Mein Kampf: Hitler's dark vision for the future
King vs parliament: the moment that sparked civil war
The Mitford sisters | 2 : life of the week
Slavery on the medieval Silk Road
The history of women's football: everything you wanted to know
Live Aid: pop's Big Bang moment
Exploring the medieval world with Marco Polo
The Mitford Sisters | 1 : life of the week
Beyond the trenches: a new take on WW1
Roman warfare: everything you wanted to know
Preview: Was Pearl Harbor an inside job?
The People's Princess: why Diana captivated the world
Secrets of medieval manuscripts
Owain Glyndŵr: life of the week
Magic beakers & Roman helmets: artefacts that shaped history
SOE: everything you wanted to know
Sisi & Eugénie: the empresses who redefined royalty
Ghosts, vampires & Abba holograms: an uncanny history of London
International security & rough sleeping: history behind the headlines
Make Mercia Great Again
The Merovingians: everything you wanted to know
How the Allies won WW2
Ancient tips for health and happiness
Thomas Aquinas: life of the week
Barmier than Bond: Ian Fleming's extraordinary wartime escapades
Fatherhood: a short history
CIA book smugglers of the Cold War
The Renaissance: not such a golden age?
Archimedes: life of the week
The Third Reich's first genocide
English folklore: everything you wanted to know
What happened in Shakespeare's "lost years"?
Plague, famine and chivalry: a human history of the 14th century
WW2 legacies and Magna Carta: history behind the headlines
Drink, dance, death: wine in ancient Egypt
The Scottish Enlightenment: everything you wanted to know
Deadly skies: the WW2 mission to fly over the Himalayas
Royal sisters: the tragic lives of Queen Victoria's granddaughters
Calamity Jane: life of the week
Spiritual showmen: the 1920s occult
Cheese history: everything you wanted to know
Taking sides: how the Civil War turned friends into enemies
Were Roman women done dirty by modern translations?
Otto von Bismarck: life of the week
The Einstein murders
The Beaker People: everything you wanted to know
Gods, demons, witches and exorcists: inside an ancient Assyrian library
Peaks, perils, and pioneers: the deadly history of mountaineering
Josephine Baker: life of the week
Women who ruled over Africa
The Taiping Rebellion: everything you wanted to know
How to choose a pope
VE Day: a people's history
Nikola Tesla: life of the week
What caused the Irish Famine?
The unification of Italy: everything you wanted to know
Public vs private: history behind closed doors
The rise of James VI & I: when Britain went global
Papal elections and tariff troubles: history behind the headlines
How the English took Manhattan
Troubadours: everything you wanted to know
The 93 penises of the Bayeux Tapestry
The great siege of Malta: Knights Hospitaller vs the Ottoman empire
Joanna Plantagenet: life of the week
Suleyman the Magnificent's bid for world domination
The Etruscans: everything you wanted to know
Lexington and Concord: 250 years on
The botanists of besieged Leningrad
The Brothers Grimm: life of the week
Could the US have won the Vietnam war?
The Teutonic Order: everything you wanted to know
The women's orchestra of Auschwitz
JFK: the man behind the myths
Fulvia: life of the week
Simon Schama on the Holocaust
The 'Scramble for Africa': everything you wanted to know
A Nazi in Chile: did an SS commander work for Pinochet?
Tariffs and trade wars: a history of economic warfare
Funding cuts and culture wars: history behind the headlines
Why we shouldn't see museum artefacts as 'stolen'
The Belle Époque: everything you wanted to know
Body in the basement: Dr Crippen and the 'crime of the century'
The Philadelphia gun-runners who supplied the IRA
Thomas Becket: life of the week
Why Africa's history is more than just the slave trade
The Great Stink: everything you wanted to know
Handel's Messiah: the scandalous birth of a classical masterpiece
Women killers of the early modern era
Rosa Luxemburg: life of the week
Women's hidden role in religious reformation
The history of British homes: everything you wanted to know
Wolfmen and amazons: why did the Greeks and Romans demonise their neighbours?
Reform and rebellion in the reign of Henry III
Emily Hobhouse: life of the week
Cheese-rolling, horse skulls & morris dancers: Britain's strange folk customs
Roman medicine: everything you wanted to know
What's the state of women's history in 2025?
Medieval murder mystery: who killed King James III?
Virginia Woolf: life of the week
Medieval murders most foul
The Assyrians: everything you wanted to know
King Leopold's elephant expedition: a story of colonialism in Congo
Introducing History's Greatest Battles | New Podcast
What did the Romans wear?
Frederick Barbarossa: life of the week
Sexuality on trial in colonial America
Mining history: everything you wanted to know
Bruisers and bare knuckles: the brutal world of Victorian boxing
Did Britain really rule the waves?
Jane Austen: life of the week
The princess who fled Romanov Russia
The Opium Wars: everything you wanted to know
Rome's most scandalous emperors
The royal threesome that rocked Anglo-Saxon England
Are we celebrating the wrong Magna Carta?
The forgotten JFK assassination plot
The Indian Rebellion of 1857: everything you wanted to know
From dinosaurs to Godzilla: a 15,000-year history of monsters
How monasteries powered medieval Europe
Greenland, forest fires and presidential power: history behind the headlines
George Villiers: from royal favourite to enemy number one
Extinct animals: everything you wanted to know
Agony and ecstasy: the lives of mystics
How medicine became a moneymaker
Carolingians in crisis: the medieval civil war that shaped Europe
Charles Dickens: life of the week
Murder in WW2 London
British TV history: everything you wanted to know
The big questions of the Holocaust
Happiness: history of an emotion
The 1453 fall of Constantinople: capturing the Byzantine capital
Inside the mind of the Third Reich
Sacagawea: life of the week
Women's bodies: an unreliable history
Ancient Mesopotamia: everything you wanted to know
Who moulded Winston Churchill?
Elizabethan London: a multicultural melting pot
Strange stories of medieval saints
What is the greatest historical movie of all time?
Nell Gwyn: life of the week
How pigs caused a stink in medieval England
The Hanseatic League: everything you wanted to know
Secret forceps & pig bladders: medical objects through time
How Roman roads transformed Europe
Hotel Lux: the guesthouse of world revolution
Introducing History's Greatest Scandals | New Podcast
Susan B Anthony: life of the week
How the compass became a political weapon
Medieval towns: everything you wanted to know
Harold Wilson: the rock 'n' roll prime minister
Who is buried at Sutton Hoo?
Sex and Christianity: 2,000 years of love and fury
Catherine the Great: life of the week
The Second Norman Conquest
The Carolingians: everything you wanted to know
The SAS in WW2: everything you wanted to know
Arnhem: 24 hours that shattered Allied dreams
Tudor England | 5. The wider world
2024 in review: history behind the headlines
Shipwrecks: a porthole to the past
Quaker history: everything you wanted to know
Christmas history: everything you wanted to know
How convict labour forged empires
Tudor England | 4. Religion and superstition
Secrets of medieval churches
Isabella of Castile: life of the week
The massacre that shattered the old Ottoman world
Underwear history: everything you wanted to know
Medieval relic hunters: the quest for Notre-Dame's crown of thorns
Tudor England | 3. Culture and innovation
Tempting treats & festive feats: christmas shopping down the ages
Robert the Bruce: life of the week
Germany's postwar reinvention
Robot history: everything you wanted to know
Britain's wild republican decade
Tudor England | 2. Daily life
Kublai Khan: ruler of the waves
Princes in the Tower: could this new discovery solve the mystery?
The murders at Rillington Place: postwar London's grisliest crimes
Tudor explorers: everything you wanted to know
Nelson & Winnie: inside the Mandelas' marriage
Tudor England | 1. Power and politics
Tudor England: the big questions | Trailer
A Victorian cult: inside the strange world of the Agapemone
History behind the headlines: Trump's win – parallels with the past
Sport's strangest tales
Ancient Egyptian warfare: everything you wanted to know
The bloody road to Rome: liberating Italy from the Nazis in WWII
The invisible tracks that have shaped the world
Should we stop talking about the crusades?
Æthelred the Unready: life of the week
The golden age of the country house
Victorian schools: everything you wanted to know
Gladiators: everything you wanted to know
Nelson: a life of heroism and scandal
Medieval make do and mend
Thomas Cromwell: the triumph and tragedy of Henry VIII's right-hand man
Joseph McCarthy: life of the week
Gladiator tales
The Brontës: everything you wanted to know
Lord Lucan: the vanishing earl
The Tyrant, the usurper and the hero | Henry V: hero
How Stalin won WW2
The Venerable Bede: life of the week
Decoding Mary, Queen of Scots
The Blitz: everything you wanted to know
The gunpowder plot: everything you wanted to know
Telling the story of modern Jerusalem
The Tyrant, the usurper and the hero | Henry IV: usurper
Satan & the sabbath: witchhunting in the Basque Country
Florence Nightingale: life of the week
Introducing History's Greatest Conspiracy Theories
Cocaine: a Victorian sensation
Medieval science: everything you wanted to know
Halloween traditions: everything you wanted to know
Medieval women: friendship, wanderlust and the medieval hustle
The Tyrant, the usurper and the hero | Richard II: tyrant
Chris Packham & Peter Frankopan: can history help tackle the climate crisis?
History Behind the Headlines: political memoirs, fuel and access to nature
Tudor spymaster: the secret machinations of Robert Cecil
The Korean War: everything you wanted to know
Roman slavery: a brutal life in the ancient empire
1066: the battle for England | 4. the long and violent Norman Conquest
Imperial spectacle: inside Britain's 1924 'Empire Exhibition'
John Milton: life of the week
Why did people kill for Hitler?
The Cathars: everything you wanted to know
Black British History: everything you wanted to know
Shopping and snacking: a social history of the high street
1066: the battle for England | 3. Three kings and three battles
The race to identify all living creatures
King John: life of the week
Ordinary Vikings: hidden histories of the Nordic world
Tea history: everything you wanted to know
Victorian women detectives
1066: the battle for England | 2. The power behind the Anglo-Saxon throne
A hidden history of black civil rights
Eleanor Roosevelt: life of the week
How did the US get so many guns?
Communism: everything you wanted to know
Liberating WW2 Naples: triumph and tragedy
1066: the battle for England | 1. Vikings, Normans and rebellious Anglo-Saxons
Churchill's prewar crisis meetings
Henry VII: life of the week
Tokyo 1946: the war crime trial that shaped Japan's future
The Stuarts: everything you wanted to know
Hidden environmental histories of the last 500 years
Ancient Egypt | 5. a lost world?
Congo, Cold War & CIA plotting: the 1961 assassination that shook Africa
Viking trade, Titanic and Olympic rings: history behind the headlines
How ancient India transformed the world
The Hittites: everything you wanted to know
The Iranian embassy siege: an SAS hostage drama in London
Ancient Egypt | 4. religion and death
Native Americans: a history of power and survival
Isambard Kingdom Brunel: life of the week
The 1943 battle of Kursk – and its present-day echoes
Medieval torture: everything you wanted to know
Medieval documents in danger
Ancient Egypt | 3. culture
Our 10,000-year quest for equality
Michelangelo: life of the week
The Battle of Megiddo: ancient Egypt's greatest victory?
Prehistoric stone circles: everything you want to know
The plague that brought the Roman empire to its knees
Ancient Egypt | 2. everyday life
False rumps & rotten teeth: 400 years of bizarre beauty practices
Emperor Vespasian: life of the week
An audacious escape from slavery
The Abbasid caliphate: everything you wanted to know
Crusader criminals: how the Holy Land became a hotbed of lawlessness
Ancient Egypt | 1. civilisation
Ancient Egypt: the big questions | Trailer
Gulag doctors: saving lives in Stalin's prison camps
The far right in Britain: history behind the headlines
Practical magic: curses, spells & cunning folk
The history of migration: everything you wanted to know
Eighteen-year-olds who changed history
Toilets through time | 4. Victorian lavatories
How games changed history
George Orwell: life of the week
Lines on a map: borders that shaped world history
Tartan: everything you wanted to know
Olympic History: everything you wanted to know
Hidden labs, sex gardens & torture attics: secrets of British royal palaces
Toilets through time | 3. Tudor garderobes
Gulbadan Begum: princess, explorer, author
Anne Frank: life of the week
Stealing the Mona Lisa
The Great Exhibition: everything you wanted to know
Dismemberment & disgrace: the grisly fate of Simon de Montfort
Toilets through time | 2. Medieval privies
Has imperial history become too politicised?
Francis Drake: life of the week
Our long obsession with the end of the world
The Grand Tour: everything you wanted to know
Black Death: everything you wanted to know
The Decameron: sex, plague, and a medieval Love Island
Toilets through time | 1. Roman latrines
Assassinations that shaped US history
Is democracy doomed? History behind the headlines
Catherine of Braganza: the Merrie Monarch's forgotten queen
The Spanish Inquisition: everything you wanted to know
1217: the year that (almost) changed English history
Deeds not words | 6. Mission accomplished?
Kindness & hostility: refugees in wartime Britain
Catherine de' Medici: life of the week
The suffragettes who fell in love
Servants: everything you wanted to know
Anxieties of the Edwardian age
Deeds not words | 5. Burning down the house
How the Plantagenets forged the English state
Justinian: life of the week
The woman who saved the children
Victorian crime and punishment: everything you wanted to know
How the Dreyfus Affair tore France apart
Deeds not words | 4. Cat and mouse
The surprising lives of ancient women
Boudica: life of the week
How Stalin ran rings round the west
British general elections: everything you wanted to know
Medieval keep fit
Deeds not words | 3. Making a statement
A 21st-century Holocaust trial
Catherine Parr: life of the week
Invisible ink & toad poison: tools of Elizabethan spycraft
Chocolate history: everything you wanted to know
Work-life balance: how our ancestors fought for free time
Deeds not words | 2. Pankhurst family portrait
Anne Boleyn: a modern woman?
Historical apologies & female leaders: History behind the headlines
Has WW2 become a national religion?
Beowulf: everything you wanted to know
Inside Bridgerton's ballrooms
Deeds not words | 1. Battlelines are drawn
Deeds not words | Trailer
War, peace & cherry trees: finding hope after WW2
Dwight D Eisenhower: life of the week
Forging first editions: a 1930s crime caper
The pilgrim fathers: everything you wanted to know
Beastly Victorians: preventing animal cruelty in the 19th century
D-Day: was Churchill really against the operation?
D-Day: Land
A 17th-century scandal & a writer's secret life
Plato: life of the week
Breastfeeding in the Middle Ages
Death and mourning in Britain: everything you wanted to know
Julian: the Roman emperor who (almost) changed the world
D-Day: Sea
A Soviet road trip through 1930s America
Galileo: life of the week
What was life like as a peasant?
The history of museums: everything you wanted to know
Forgotten women writers of the Renaissance
D-Day: Air
Cat crazy: the Victorian mania for moggies
Maria Theresa: life of the week
Agent Zo: spying against the Nazis
The Terror: everything you wanted to know
The real Lady Whistledown & the golden age of gossip
WW2's greatest battles | 5. Guadalcanal
A surprising history of sex between men
History Behind the Headlines: student protests down the centuries
Tudor ladies-in-waiting: the women who served Henry VIII's queens
Ancient Greek theatre: everything you wanted to know
The Tattooist of Auschwitz: is it ok to fictionalise the Holocaust?
WW2's greatest battles | 4. El Alamein
Shardlake: bringing the Tudor murder mystery to the screen
Kublai Khan: life of the week
Inside a Jim Crow asylum
The Spartans: Everything You Wanted to Know
Death by nostalgia: the curious history of a dangerous emotion
WW2's greatest battles | 3. Battle of the Atlantic
Smash hits: 17th-century style
Benjamin Franklin: life of the week
OJ Simpson: the trial that gripped the world
Greg Jenner and Campbell Price delve into the curious and fascinating world of ancient Egyptian mummification
The Magus: enlightened magician or Renaissance charlatan?
WW2's greatest battles | 2. Stalingrad
Aztec myths
David Lloyd George: life of the week
Graffiti's golden age: radicalism & romance in the 18th century
Highwaymen: everything you wanted to know
An African perspective on the history of Africa
WW2's greatest battles | 1. Battle of Britain
WW2's greatest battles | Trailer
How Kissinger transformed the Cold War
Lord Byron: life of the week
Horrible Histories: 15 years of death, poo and talking rats
Medieval medicine: everything you wanted to know
Death & hubris in west Africa: how two British expeditions met with disaster
Conspiracy Revisited: The JFK assassination – Oswald’s second murder
Clotilda: the last slave ship to America
History behind the headlines: the Bengal famine
Spying in the Troubles: the murky world of double agents in Northern Ireland
Welsh mythology: everything you wanted to know
Tying the knot: 500 years of wedded bliss and marital misery
Conspiracy Revisited: The JFK assassination – 95 per cent certain?
The British empire's divisive legacy
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