All Episodes

My Family Owned Slaves

Hall of Fame: The Man Who Designed Bond

The Name's Bond. Queer Bond.

Hall of Fame: The Modernist Romantic

My Great-Grandfather Made Chemical Weapons for the Nazis

Hall of Fame: The French Menu Cookbook

How Windrush Made a Nation

Hall of Fame: The Good War Criminal

Hall of Fame: The Martyrs of Matouba

Hall of Fame: The Violinist of Auschwitz

Hall of Fame: The Barber of the Hindoostane Coffee House

Hall of Fame: The Master of Memorials

Hall of Fame: The First Black Fighter Pilot

Hall of Fame: The Singer's Singer

Hall of Fame: The Tenacious Traveller

The Road to Vinh Linh: The Vietnam War and the Saving Rice Jar

Hall of Fame: A Touch of Genius

Smoke and Silk: Re-imagining London’s Very First Chinatown

Hall of Fame: Beer, Bailiffs and Balls

Kiss and Tell: The Fabulous Lives of Peg Plunkett, Dublin’s Courtesan Extraordinaire

Hall of Fame: Ireland's Pirate Queen

It's Complicated: Sathnam Sanghera on India's Controversial Independence Leader

Hall of Fame: Britain's First Black Sports Star

Halls of Fame: Art and Celebrity from Ludwig I to Donald Trump

Pilgrimage: A Christmas Trapped History Special

Hall of Fame: Ending Animal Cruelty one Bear at a Time

The Pride of the Peaks: Michaela Strachan on the Woman who Fought for Nature

Hall of Fame: Throwing Stones, Winning the Vote and Changing Women's History

The Genius Myth: Helen Lewis on Why We Fall for the Same Old Shtick Throughout History

Hall of Fame: The Medieval Sibyl of the Rhine

The Body is the Statement: Jet from Gladiators on History's Fitness Queen, Lady Lisa Lyon

Hall of Fame: Joshua Levine on History's Fancy Dress SAS

Making History Matter: A Live Debate with Joshua Levine and Oswin

Hall of Fame: Gwen Strauss on a Resistance Hero and Witness to History

Useless Mouths: Gwen Strauss on Untold Stories of Forbidden Love in the Holocaust

Hall of Fame: Sarah-Jane Morris Hails Music's Miss America

The Lost Singer-Songwriter: Sarah-Jane Morris on Connie Converse, Music's Hidden Hero

Hall of Fame: The Forgotten Hero of Architecture Minnette de Silva

The Difficult Conversation: The Real Nihal on Helen Bamber’s Mission to Bear Witness

Season 5 Special: It's A Continent x Trapped History on Patrice Lumumba

The Hall of Fame Special: Who Would You Like to Add?

The Animal King: Zippo, Frank Bostock and the Magic of Circus

Hall of Fame: Seventy-Five Letters

The Missing Holes: Clare Mulley on the Courage of Agent Zo

Hall of Fame: The Meaning of Memory

Dikki Redux: The Woman Behind the Record

The Amazing Randi: Patron Saint of Sceptics

Hall of Fame: Mark Twain and the Dishonesty of the American Flag

Making Sense of Murder: Kim Wagner on Massacres from Paris to the Philippines

Untold Lives: The Power Behind the Throne

Hall of Fame: Mother of the Nation

Broken Threads: Mishal Husain on Family, Memory, Loss and Longing

Jeremy Corbyn Redux: The Charlotte Despard of the 21st Century

Hall of Fame: Guitars, Light Shows and the Reluctant Leader

The Hidden Leader: Why Roald Amundsen won the Race to The Pole

Hall of Fame: Daughters of Africa

Una Marson: More Clever, More Wise, More Discreet, More Courageous

Hall of Fame: The Most Beautiful Music I've Ever Heard

Blues Run The Game: Pete Paphides on the Lost World of Jackson C Frank

Hall of Fame: The German Amelia Earhart

The Women of the ATA: That Spitfire Bird on the Barnstorming Pauline Gower

Hall of Fame: The Shepherd Cannot Run

The Steamship Hajj: How Empire, Fear and Greed Took on Religion

Hall of Fame: The Phoenix of America

The Radical’s Radical: Jeremy Corbyn on Charlotte Despard and the Age of Protest

A Delicate and Dangerous Job: Evelyn Dunbar and Female War Art

Ben Ferencz and the Quest for World Peace: Keith Lowe on the Fear and the Freedom

Black Boy Lane: Joris Lechene on the Legacy of John La Rose

The Women who Ran The Resistance: Anne Sebba on the Forgotten Heroines

The Indian Imperialist: Sathnam Sanghera on the Curious Cornelia Sorabji

Eurovision Special: The Song Contest which ended The Cold War

How The Newsies beat the Press Barons

Hall of Fame: The Silent and Unseen

The Women who Flew for Hitler: Clare Mulley on a Very Complicated History

Hall of Fame: The Genius in the Library

Emmy Noether: Einstein's Greatest Mathematician

Hall of Fame: Helping Ukrainian Refugees

The Women who Flew the World: from Richarda Morrow-Tait to Polly Vacher

Remembering the Ordinary: The Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice

The Four Heroic Lives of Johnny Smythe

Adelaide Hall: The Greatest Singer you've Never Heard Of

The Many Tangled Lives of Peter Stevens

Nellie Bly: The Greatest Person Ever!