A series of archive films documenting stories from the many combat theatres of World War Two. From Stalingrad to New Britain.
Watch NowDavid Adams takes us on a journey across many different lands. From the harsh landscapes of Afghanistan, to the City of Gold in Peru to ...
Watch NowSeb Falk, a historian of science at Cambridge University and the author of The Light Ages, tackles the big questions about science in the Middle ...
Watch NowDan Snow visits one of the most recognisable historical sites on Earth. Stonehenge. Timed with the recent solving of the Sarsen stones origin mystery, this ...
Listen NowAlice Loxton traces six thousand years of human history, unveiling villagers who were transfixed by superstition and legend, the struggles of antiquarians who accredited the ...
Watch NowHistorian Luke Pepara looks at how and why the history of Africa was written out of world history. He also explores how and why, as ...
Watch NowIn this heartfelt documentary, his son and grandson recount the story of Lieutenant Dial's life and military service, and reveal the impact his story and ...
Watch NowIn the late 1850s, Britain and France were involved in an arms race. Both sides were embracing new technologies like armour plating to try and ...
Watch NowLuke Pepera, a British-Ghanaian writer, historian, archaeologist and anthropologist tackles the big questions about the Kingdom of Benin, a powerful domain that flourished between the 13...
Watch NowMark Williams, senior lecturer in Early Modern history at Cardiff University, tackles the big questions about the East India Company.
Watch Now12th August, 2020
Dan finds out what's going on with recent excavations at Vindolanda, one of the largest Roman forts near Hadrian's Wall. All manner of discoveries have ...
Listen Now11th August, 2020
In 1597, King James VI of Scotland published a compendium on witchcraft called Daemonologie that laid down the kind of trial and ...
Listen Now10th August, 2020
In this pod I was joined by two people who have played quite an important part in my life: my mum and dad (known to ...
Listen Now9th August, 2020
The second atomic strike on the city of Nagasaki is less well known than the one a few days earlier on Hiroshima, but was it ...
Listen Now8th August, 2020
In this episode, Dan speaks to award-winning political correspondent and commentator, Svenja O'Donnell, about her remarkable grandmother's personal story of migration, sexual violence and murder ...
Listen Now7th August, 2020
The son of a former slave, Pertinax was the Roman Emperor who proved that no matter how lowly your birth, you could rise to the ...
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On 6 August 1945, an American B29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over Hiroshima. Three days later, Nagasaki was at the receiving end of ...
Listen Now5th August, 2020
The common sailor was a crucial engine of British prosperity and expansion up until the Industrial Revolution. From exploring the South Seas with Cook to ...
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This week in 1914 saw the outbreak of the First World War. In this special episode from the archive, Margaret MacMillan talks to her nephew Dan ...
Listen Now3rd August, 2020
In December 1915, some 135,000 allied troops, nearly 400 guns and 15,000 horses were collectively trapped in the bridgeheads at Anzac, Suvla and Helles. It was clear that the ...
Listen Now2nd August, 2020
In early 1900, Rudyard Kipling, Mary Kingsley and Arthur Conan Doyle crossed paths in South Africa during the Anglo-Boer War. Motivated in various ways by notions ...
Listen Now1st August, 2020
Norman Ohler joined me on the pod to discuss two remarkable lovers who led Germany's resistance against the Nazis. Harro Schulze-Boysen and Libertas Haas-Heye led ...
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