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Past Matters — 56 episodes
Spring Special 2026: Snuffboxes and Micromosaics at the V&A
Spring Special 2026: Echoes of Ash - Life in Herculaneum
Fulvia - interview with Dr Jane Draycott
Three military tombstones - Roman Britain
A carved limewood cravat - Chatsworth House
Chatsworth House - William Kent Pier Table
The women of Homer - interview with Emily Hauser
HMS Queen Charlotte Figurehead - The National Museum of the Royal Navy
New Year Special - interview with author Amber Chen
The Sword of Ommerschans - Dutch National Museum of Antiquities
The Book of the Queen - The British Library
Lord Leighton's landscape paintings - Leighton House
Assortment of Japanese souvenirs - the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum
Blandford Fashion Museum - a Regency spencer
The 'Queen of the Bluestockings' - Elizabeth Montagu
Costanza Piccolomini - interview with author Rachel Blackmore
Easter 2023 special - Cleopatra Selene
Easter 2023 special - Equestrian artist Lucy Kemp-Welch
New Year special - Sophia Dorothea, the British queen who never was
Animal bones - Fishbourne Roman Palace
Circles of Stone exhibition - Stonehenge
Sword and helmet - William Morris Gallery
'The Lost King' - The Wallace Collection
'Without hands' - the Sarah Biffin exhibition at Philip Mould & Company
'Tiny Traces' - The Foundling Museum
Christmas 2021 special episode - interview with Lucy Jago
Christmas 2021 special episode - interview with Annie Garthwaite
Christmas 2021 special episode - interview with Jennifer Saint
2021 special - interview with Dr Valerie Schutte
2021 special - interview with Dr Ian Mortimer
2021 special - interview with Dr Ellie Woodacre
2021 special - interview with Kelcey Wilson-Lee
The prisons - Colchester Castle
A pair of huia birds - The Horniman Museum & Gardens
Two swords - Ipswich Museum
1960s clock - Museum of the Home
'Schooner approaching the harbour' - Compton Verney
Two smocks - The MERL
A patera - The Roman Baths, Bath
Three ceilings - Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery
Axminster carpet - Harewood House
'Colt hunting in the New Forest' - Palace House
Christmas 2019 special: Margaret Beaufort's tomb - chosen by historian Nicola Tallis
Christmas 2019 special: Torcheres - Apsley House (with added bonus audio)
Christmas 2019 special: Two clocks - The Charles Dickens Museum
THREE GORILLAS – IPSWICH MUSEUM
Madame de Pompadour snuffbox - Waddesdon Manor
Three tapestries - Hever Castle
Regency fan - The Holburne Museum
Roman jewellery - Colchester Castle
Alfred Munnings' Newlyn sketchbooks - Munnings Art Museum
Regency dairy - Weald & Downland Living Museum
Self-portrait of Emma Brownlow - The Foundling Museum
Japanned Chinoiserie cabinet - Christchurch Mansion
Renaissance parade sallet - The Wallace Collection
Introduction to Past Matters