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The English Heritage Podcast — 373 episodes
Northumberland and the Border Reivers
A history of natural history
Northumberland: the story of Norham Castle
Windmills: restoring England’s working giants
Northumberland: castles and the borderlands of power
Memories of flowers: a country house and its community
The bittersweet history of chocolate
The Partners: who were Seely and Paget?
The hidden history of women in construction
The secret world of portrait miniatures
The birth of medieval manuscripts
Poetry, maths and the Milky Way: the unsung genius of Thomas Wright
Rethinking an Iron Age ‘war cemetery’
Love tokens from history
Before 1066: how England’s elites lived, ruled, and showed off
A postie, an emperor, and a 2,000-year-old grain measure
Falconry, fashion and threat: a history of people and birds
Adventure and obsession: orchid hunting in the 1930s
Dogs and devotion: faithful companions and their families
Vermeer: Double Vision
What was Christmas like for servants below stairs?
The curious case of Santa’s finger and the story of Christian pilgrimage
From Bayswater to Neverland: J.M. Barrie and the boy who wouldn’t grow up
Living with the ancestors: Neolithic death and remembrance
A delicious history of pudding
From Brodsworth with love: the girl who knitted for the front
Disability and care in medieval England
‘Pleasing terrors’: the origins and continuing popularity of ghost stories
Privilege and play: a history of childhood adventure
Enslaver, politician, survivor: the complex life of Elizabeth Vassall Fox
A history of curry in Britain
A coin, a castle and a conquest: the Normans in the north of England
Circle of Days and the building of Stonehenge
Monastic to modern: a history of universities
Feeding the masses: fuelling an agricultural revolution
Pumps and people power: firefighting at country houses
The Melsonby Hoard: life in Iron Age Britain
William Marshal: the man behind the myth
A potted history of houseplants
Cultivating a vision: women in garden design
‘Dollar princesses’ or influential heiresses? A new perspective on Sargent’s American portraits
A short history of games with Taskmaster’s Alex Horne
The Black British composer who broke America
‘Princely Shows’ and power: Elizabeth I at Kenilworth Castle
How 1930s fashion and design shook up a former medieval palace
Espionage, identity and cross-dressing in the Middle Ages
The enduring allure of stone circles
The art of heritage: Turner’s vision of England
The illuminating story of stained glass
People of 1381: stories from the Peasants’ Revolt
Gladiators: finds, fans and fame
The camera, the cook and the chauffeur: a country house love story
Computers, protection and peace in the Cold War era
From bobbins to skyscrapers: the story of Shrewsbury Flaxmill
Georgian wallpaper and an enduring fashion trend
Fish, feminism and working women in the 20th Century
Speaking with shadows: The Workhouse at Framlingham Castle
Speaking with shadows: Bolsover Castle’s Philosopher Duchess
Speaking with shadows: Witchcraft, Women and Power
From the archive: Alice Thornton: a woman’s experience of the English Civil Wars
Speaking with shadows: The medieval massacre of the Jews of York
From the archive: The extraordinary life and times of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Speaking with shadows: Gwen Lalley - a 1930s pioneer
From the archive: Exploring LGBTQ+ history in the Wernher Collection at Ranger’s House
Speaking with shadows: the people of Hadrian's Wall
From the archive: The story behind reggae legend Bob Marley’s blue plaque in London
Speaking with shadows: Richmond Castle’s Conscientious Objectors
Speaking with shadows: The Caribbean Prisoners of Portchester Castle
From the archive: Ask the experts: Everything you want to know about England’s monasteries
From the archive: Ask the experts: everything you want to know about castles
From the archive: Ask the experts: Everything you want to know about the Neolithic
From the archive: Celebrating England’s post-Christmas winter traditions
From the archive: Exploring Victorian Christmas traditions
Bonus episode: Victorian Christmas Tales and Traditions at Wrest Park
From the archive: Celebrating the Roman midwinter festival of Saturnalia
From the archive: Christmas entertaining at English Heritage’s houses
From the archive: Who were the Romans of Britannia?
Episode 294 - The 1266 siege of Kenilworth Castle
Episode 293 - A delicious history of the English pie
Episode 292 - Hailes Abbey and the Holy Blood
Episode 291 - Ask the experts: England’s medieval kings and queens
Episode 290 - Halloween, All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day
Episode 289 - Women in politics in the 1920s
Episode 288 - Revealing the historic voices of Brixton
Episode 287 - Beyond 1066: who was William the Conqueror?
Episode 286 - John of Gaunt: the founder of a dynasty
Episode 285 - Behind the Scenes of a Roman Villa
Episode 284 - Lady Elizabeth Russell: Keeper of Donnington Castle
Episode 283 - Vincent Van Gogh in London
Episode 282 - Life as a medieval nun
Episode 281 - Harry Hotspur and Warkworth Castle
Bonus episode - Summer with Queen Victoria: Life at Osborne
Episode 280 - Bad King John: England’s worst monarch?
Episode 279 - Uncovering the prehistoric Uffington White Horse
Episode 278 - Marble Hill: how to build a Georgian villa
Episode 277 - In the Ayahs’ Home: Pioneering Indian and Chinese Women in Hackney
Episode 276 - The lost art of the parterre garden
Episode 275 - Secrets of the Corbridge Hoard
Episode 274 - Heroes of the 1924 Paris Olympics
Episode 273 - Pandemic: how the Black Death ravaged medieval England
Episode 272 - The decline of the English country house
Episode 271 - Ask the experts: Summer solstice at Stonehenge
Episode 270 - England’s rulers and their ‘favourites’
Episode 269 - Exploring the Roman Lake District
Episode 268 - Building better communities: celebrating two pioneering women
Episode 267 - Day of reckoning: remembering the events of D-Day
Episode 266 - Art and Ideals: Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and the Bloomsbury Group
Episode 265 - Stonehenge and the Major Lunar Standstill
Episode 264 - Ask the Experts: Everything You Wanted to Know About Medieval Knights and Jousts
Episode 263 - Saving our Paintings: Jan Wijnants at Brodsworth Hall and Gardens
Episode 262 - Behind the Lord Warden's Secret Door at Walmer Castle
Episode 261 - 900 years of history at Furness Abbey
Episode 260 - The military history of the Isles of Scilly
Episode 259 - Long lost shells returned: from Captain Cook’s voyage to Chesters Roman Fort (via a skip)
Episode 258 - Seeing Belsay Hall in a new light with artist Ingrid Pollard
Episode 257 - Mum's the word: an exploration of maternity and motherhood
Episode 256 - What happened after the Romans left Britain?
Episode 255 - Walking Offa's Dyke
Episode 254 - Art and activism: the life and legacy of Derek Jarman
Episode 253 - True romances: the perfect partnerships made at our sites
Episode 252 - Uncovering the mystery of the Corbridge dodecahedra
Episode 251 - The remarkable rise and fall of Old Sarum
Episode 250 - Eels: medieval England's forgotten currency
Episode 249 - Leap years, Candlemas and other archaic calendar traditions
Episode 248 - England’s lost composer: George Jeffreys at Kirby Hall
Episode 247 - Kits Coty House and the Medway Megaliths
Episode 246 - Ask the experts: everything you wanted to know about the history of Christmas
Episode 245 - Christmas misbehaviour and the Lords of Misrule
Episode 244 - Mead, mulsum and merrymaking: a brief history of booze
Episode 243 - St Milburga: princess, abbess, miracle worker
Episode 242 - How to stay healthy in Roman Britain
Episode 241 - Nye Bevan and the founding of the National Health Service
Episode 240 - A history of England in stinking sewage
Episode 239 - The Lady of the Isle: Isabella de Fortibus and Carisbrooke Castle
Episode 238 - Stonehenge and the Festival of Neolithic Ideas
Episode 237 - The horrifying history of Farleigh Hungerford Castle
Episode 236 - Unlocking the story of Portchester's black and mixed-heritage prisoners of war
Episode 235 - Ask The Experts: everything you want to know about the Battle of Hastings
Episode 234 - A royal raid: the 1303 burglary of the Crown Jewel treasury
Episode 233 - Celebrating the Women’s Freedom League with our 1,000th blue plaque
Episode 232 - A delight for the senses at our historic gardens
Episode 231 - History lesson: education at medieval schools
Episode 230 - Henry V at Kenilworth Castle and his 'pleasance in the marsh'
Episode 229 - Reawakening Belsay Hall, Castle and Gardens
Episode 228 - Flowering interest: recreating the Stonehenge Dahlia Exhibition
Episode 227 - Ask the experts: Everything you want to know about the Civil Wars and the Restoration
Episode 226 - Royal, rebel, suffragette: Princess Sophia Duleep Singh
Episode 225 - The extraordinary life of Margaret Cavendish
Episode 224 - Who was the real Robin Hood?
Episode 223 - A portrait of artist Joshua Reynolds
Episode 222 - Sailing the world with the Courtaulds 1930s-style
Episode 221 - Unearthing the story of Arthur's Stone
Episode 220 - Exploring the real lives of the English peasant at Wharram Percy
Episode 219 - The Ridgeway: a walk through time along England's oldest road
Episode 218 - Within these walls: Orford Castle
Episode 217 - Pride of place: uncovering LGBTQ+ histories at our sites
Episode 216 - Wroxeter: the heart of a Roman city
Episode 215 - Natural history at home: scientific collecting at Audley End in the Victorian era
Episode 214 - Richborough Roman Fort: gateway to Britannia
Episode 213 - Making a mark: the historic graffiti at our sites
Episode 212 - Crowning glory: a history of coronations
Episode 211 - Warkworth Castle: stories in stone
Episode 210 - Ask the experts: everything you want to know about the Georgians
Episode 209 - Cartimandua And Boudica: Iron Age Queens
Episode 208 - Illuminating Lindisfarne Priory
Episode 207 - Jane Whorwood: Royalist Spy
Episode 206 - Launceston Castle and the whale
Episode 205 - Celebrating the great and good of women's history
Episode 204 - Building a legacy: the life and designs of Sir Christopher Wren
Episode 203 - An ancient landscape: Thornborough Henges
Episode 202 - Roman reverence at the Temple of Mithras
Episode 201 - Exploring the history of Neolithic pottery at Stonehenge
Episode 200 - Little wonders: six hidden historic gems to visit in 2023
Episode 199 - Lady Anne Clifford and the fight for five castles
Episode 198 - Osborne and Victorian politics, diplomacy and Empire
Episode 197 - Ask the experts: everything you want to know about the Tudors
Episode 196 - The remarkable life and legacy of naturalist and explorer Alfred Russel Wallace
Episode 195 - Winter warmers: what our ancestors ate at the coldest time of year
Episode 194 - From St Nicholas to Scrooge: exploring Victorian Christmas traditions
Episode 193 - Celebrating Saturnalia: the history and traditions of the Roman midwinter festival
Episode 192 - Cobbler, tailor, candlestick maker: the role of servants at our medieval monasteries
Episode 191 - Jewel Tower: the building in the background
Episode 190 - The Anglo-Irish Treaty and the founding of the Irish Free State
Episode 189 - From stage to silver screen: the life and career of Charlie Chaplin
Episode 188 - Remembering the fallen at London’s most poignant war memorials
Episode 187 - The real story of Bonfire Night and Rushton Triangular Lodge
Episode 186 - Ask the experts: everything you want to know about England's country houses
Episode 185 - Feasts through history: a royal reception at Gainsborough Old Hall
Episode 184 - Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Whitby Abbey and the Victorian Gothic
Episode 183 - Revenants and Remains: using the dead to bring medieval monasteries back to life
Episode 182 - Circles of Stone: Stonehenge and Prehistoric Japan
Episode 181 - The surprising history of Wellington Arch
Episode 180 - 1066 and all that: the rise, reign and fall of Harold Godwinson
Episode 179 - Bringing in the harvest at Brodsworth Hall and Leigh Court Barn
Episode 178 - Restormel Castle and the Duchy of Cornwall
Episode 177 - Ask the experts: everything you want to know about the Romans
Episode 176 - Feasts through history: fine dining at Stokesay Castle
Episode 175 - Georgian garden tourists: a potted history of visiting gardens
Episode 174 - A history of the Great British seaside resort
Episode 173 - Women in Civil War England: Alice Thornton and Middleham Castle
Episode 172 - A medieval mission: converting Anglo-Saxon England
Episode 171 - Holy water: Rievaulx Abbey and the Rye Valley
Episode 170 - Curating human remains at St Peter’s Church
Episode 169 - White horses and hill figures in England
Episode 168 - Somerset v Stewart: the landmark trial that helped to end slavery
Episode 167 - A history of the castle with John Goodall
Episode 166 - The Edwardian discovery of Coria
Episode 165 - Making Marble Hill: the story of Henrietta Howard and her Georgian villa
Episode 164 - Hadrian's Wall part 4: legacy
Episode 163 - Feasts through history: dining and reclining at Lullingstone Roman Villa
Episode 162 - Wars of the Roses part 2: Richard III
Episode 161 - Hadrian’s Wall part 3: evolution and end
Episode 160 - Behind the scenes of Netflix’s Bridgerton at Ranger’s House
Episode 159 - King Edmund: Christian martyr, patron saint
Episode 158 - Ask the experts: Everything you want to know about the Victorians
Episode 157 - A new perspective on the history of Clifford's Tower
Episode 156 - Out at Ranger’s House: Exploring LGBTQ+ history in the Wernher Collection
Episode 155 - The country house at war: Military requisitioning 1939-45
Episode 154 - Hadrian's Wall part 2: Life at Housesteads Roman Fort
Episode 153 - National treasures: England’s groundbreaking female archaeologists
Episode 152 - The Wars of the Roses part 1: The battles begin
Episode 151 - The extraordinary life and times of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Episode 150 - Solving the mystery of Audley End's Indigenous American collections
Episode 149 - Heritage crime watch: how we’re protecting our historic treasures
Episode 148 - Ask the experts: Everything you want to know about the Neolithic period
Episode 147 - Hadrian’s Wall part 1: The man behind the wall
Episode 146 - 1066 and all that: What happened after the Battle of Hastings?
Episode 145 - Celebrating England’s post-Christmas winter traditions
Episode 144 - Life on ice: Sir Ernest Shackleton and the blue plaque polar explorers
Episode 143 - Christmas entertaining at English Heritage’s properties
Episode 142 - Holy warriors: The secrets of the Knights Templar
Episode 141 - Celebrating the Winter Solstice at Stonehenge
Episode 140 - Burning ambitions: The story of Derwentcote Steel Furnace
Episode 139 - Thomas, Earl of Lancaster and Dunstanburgh Castle
Episode 138 - At home with London’s rock and pop stars: introducing the blue plaque supergroup
Episode 137 - The history of Poppy Day
Episode 136 - Who were the Romans of Britannia?
Episode 135 - Medieval medicine, magic and superstition
Episode 134 - The history of windows, and how we’re saving their stories
Episode 133 - Divine dairies and the history of butter
Episode 132 - Freedom fighters: the story of Ellen and William Craft
Episode 131 - Exploring the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade at Brodsworth Hall and Gardens
Episode 130 - 1066 and all that: The events and people behind the Battle of Hastings
Episode 129 - Harvests, hauntings and fiery nights: Exploring our autumn traditions
Episode 128 - Uncovering the secrets of Richborough Roman Fort and Amphitheatre
Episode 127 - Exploring Darwin’s living laboratory
Episode 126 - Hot tubs and hypocausts: Roman bathing in Britain
Episode 125 - Ask the experts: Everything you want to know about England’s monasteries
Episode 124 - A Victorian play palace: Inside Osborne’s Swiss Cottage
Episode 123 - A blast from the past: Introducing our historic artillery collection
Episode 122 - Early Medieval Britain: Illuminating the ‘Dark Ages’
Episode 121 - Sporting heroes: Introducing London’s blue plaque Olympians
Episode 120 - Gainsborough Old Hall and the changing lives of a medieval manor
Episode 119 - Power and dissent: 950 years of history at Richmond Castle
Episode 118 - The making of Berwick-upon-Tweed Barracks
Episode 117 - Memories of living at Stonehenge in the 1930s
Episode 116 - Family life with the Darwins at Down House
Episode 115 - A new archaeological excavation at Birdoswald Roman Fort
Episode 114 - A knight’s tale: The real-life English Heritage knights
Episode 113 - Painting a portrait of Sarah Forbes Bonetta at Osborne
Episode 112 - Preserving the past at Marble Hill and Belsay Hall
Episode 111 - The lawn games and sports played at our historic sites
Episode 110 - Lord of war: Napoleon Bonaparte’s life and legacy
Episode 109 - King on the run: The imprisonment and escapes of King Charles I
Episode 108 - Here be dragons! Fire breathing beasts and where to find them
Episode 107 - A flying visit: 100 years since the closure of Stonehenge aerodrome
Episode 106 - Changing fortunes: At home with the Hattons at Kirby Hall
Episode 105 - Saints, gospels and vicious Viking raids: The story of Lindisfarne Priory
Episode 104 - Digging for history at Tintagel Castle
Episode 103 - At your service: The remarkable working women at our historic houses
Episode 102 - A costume drama: Storytelling at Bolsover Castle
Episode 101 - Woman at war: Eleanor de Montfort at Dover Castle
Episode 100 - Hide and seek with kings and priests at Boscobel House and the Royal Oak
Episode 99 - Conserving works of art – and how to look after your own
Episode 98 - Eleanor of Castile: Spanish princess and English queen
Episode 97 - A tale of two castles: The Bigods, royal rebellions and Framlingham and Orford Castles
Episode 96 - Adventures in architecture: Sir Charles Monck and the creation of Belsay Hall & Gardens
Episode 95 - English Heritage in ruins
Episode 94 - The life and work of St Aelred of Rievaulx
Episode 93 - Superstition, magic and the Evil Eye in the Roman world
Episode 92 - Time to change: The history of our calendar
Episode 91 - The pagan winter customs that shaped Christmas
Episode 90 - Festive feasts through the ages
Episode 89 - Thomas Becket’s murder and Dover Castle’s Great Tower
Episode 88 - Medieval ghosts, ghouls and hauntings
Episode 87 - A marvellous menagerie: The animals that made history
Episode 86 - Mortimer Wheeler and the excavation of Stanwick Iron Age Fort
Episode 85 - On His Majesty’s Secret Service: The real-life blue plaque secret agents
Episode 84 - Ask the experts: everything you want to know about castles
Episode 83 - Halloween special: Witchcraft and witch marks
Episode 82 - Send in the cavalry! The story of Chesters Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall
Episode 81 - Voices of England: How slavery shaped the nation
Episode 80 - Black plaques: Celebrating London’s black history
Episode 79 - Untold stories: Poetry for English Heritage
Episode 78 - The story of Dido Belle at Kenwood
Episode 77 - What happened to England’s monks and nuns following the Dissolution of the Monasteries?
Episode 76 - Finding the sarsen stones: A journey to Stonehenge
Episode 75 - Border force: The defenders of the north
Episode 74 - Murderous thieves and legendary buccaneers: Pirates of the English Channel
Episode 73 - Son, brother, crusader, king: The story of Richard, Earl of Cornwall
Episode 72 - The First Barons' War and the Great Siege of Dover Castle
Episode 71 - When the bubble burst: The South Sea Company stock market crash
Episode 70 - Voices of England: The history hiding in the English landscape
Episode 69 - Atomic fallout: The story of York Cold War Bunker
Episode 68 - Keeping up appearances: Exploring the history of makeup
Episode 67 - Party at the palace: Socialising with the Courtaulds at Etlham Palace in the 1930s
Episode 66 - Voices of England: How the railways shaped the nation
Episode 65 - From home to heritage: 30 years of care at Brodsworth Hall
Episode 64 - Defending the Roman Empire: Richborough and the Saxon Shore Forts
Episode 63 - Written in the stars: summer solstice and stone circles
Episode 62 - A literary legacy: at home with Charles Dickens
Episode 61 - The Duke of Wellington and women of influence at Apsley House
Episode 60 - Operation Dynamo and ‘the miracle of Dunkirk’
Episode 59 - What was life like at our castles?
Episode 58 - Voyage of discovery: Charles Darwin and the bicentenary of the launch of HMS Beagle
Episode 57 - Belsay awakes: Recreating history in Belsay Hall’s gardens
Episode 56 - Mary Queen of Scots at Carlisle Castle
Episode 55 - Saint, soldier, slayer: who was the real St. George?
Episode 54 - The history of the hunt: how an Easter tradition was hatched
Episode 53 - On the edge of the Roman Empire: the forts of Hadrian’s Wall
Episode 52 - Power and Influence: the remarkable women who changed history at our sites
Episode 51 - Voices of England: how pre-Christian beliefs shaped our landscape, landmarks & language
Episode 50 - Wind of change: saving Saxtead Green Post Mill
Episode 49 - The blue plaque women who changed the course of English history
Episode 48 - How to cook the Victorian way with Mrs Crocombe at Audley End
Episode 47 - Saints and crusaders: medieval relics and pilgrimage at Battle Abbey
Episode 46 - Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley at Kenilworth Castle
Episode 45 - Unearthing Wrest Park’s Mithraic Glade and Root House
Episode 44 - Dover Castle’s secret Cold War tunnels
Episode 43 - Spring watch: how we prepare our historic gardens for the new season
Episode 42 - The final frontier: what life was like for the Romans on Hadrian’s Wall
Episode 41 - New year, new skills: behind the scenes with the Stonehenge volunteers
Episode 40 - The English Heritage sites that changed the course of history
Episode 39 - The origins of Christmas carols, with a special festive performance
Episode 38 - A weird and wonderful history of Christmas
Episode 37 - Celebrating Christmas with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at Osborne
Episode 36 - The rise of Mead: Toasting the world’s oldest alcoholic drink
Episode 35 - Deal Castle and Henry VIII’s ‘device forts’
Episode 34 - Charles Darwin and 'On the Origin of Species' at Down House
Episode 33 - Memory & Light: the sound installation delighting visitors’ senses at Belsay Hall
Episode 32 - Nursing the nation: how Wrest Park became a First World War country house hospital
Episode 31 - 'These Our Monsters' : Retelling myths and legends in our new book of short stories
Episode 30 - The Duke of Wellington and the Battle of Waterloo at Apsley House
Episode 29 - Rembrandt’s ultimate ‘selfie’ at Kenwood
Episode 28 - Behind the scenes of the 1066 Battle of Hastings re-enactment
Episode 27 - Exodus: the story behind reggae legend Bob Marley’s blue plaque in London
Episode 26 - Rescuing England’s largest collection of rare wall paintings
Episode 25 - Building a Bronze Age roundhouse at Beeston Castle in Cheshire
Episode 24 - The story of a real Downton Abbey at Brodsworth Hall and Gardens in South Yorkshire
Episode 23 - Enter a lost industrial world at J.W.Evans Silver Factory in Birmingham
Episode 22 - The Iron Bridge and the Industrial Revolution
Episode 21 - Steam power at Stott Park Bobbin Mill in Cumbria
Episode 20 - Mary Tudor and the succession crisis at Framlingham Castle in Suffolk
Episode 19 - Creating Tintagel Castle’s new landmark bridge
Episode 18 - Undressing the history of fashion with Amber Butchart
Episode 17 - Brave knights and epic fights: The making of a legendary joust
Episode 16 - Studying the skies above Stonehenge with space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Episode 15 - The centenary of the Cenotaph: the UK’s most famous war memorial
Episode 14 - The story behind Kenilworth Castle’s Elizabethan Garden
Episode 13 - How the Victorians invented the great British beach holiday
Episode 12 - Behind the scenes of Summer Solstice at Stonehenge
Episode 11 - The mythology of plants at Mount Grace Priory
Episode 10 - The D-Day landings and Dover Castle
Episode 9 - Author George Orwell’s blue plaque and the making of 1984
Episode 8 - Conversations in Making: artist Linda Brothwell on her new exhibition at Stonehenge
Episode 7 - Discover the treasures of Kenwood in London
Episode 6 - Victorian cook Avis Crocombe at Audley End House in Essex
Episode 5 - Explore England’s history on a pilgrimage walk
Episode 4 - Re-discovering Walmer Castle's lost pleasure grounds
Episode 3 - The origins of myths, legends and folklore
Episode 2 - Setting a date for Easter – the Synod of Whitby
Episode 1 - Victoria and Albert’s birthdays at Osborne
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