365 carefully selected historical events come together to produce a unique history of the world.
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REDEEM OFFERBAFTA winning historian and Joint Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces Lucy Worsley takes Dan on a tour of Kensington Palace, one of the principle ...
Watch NowGeorge R. R. Martin didn't just get inspiration for Game of Thrones from the Wars of the Roses, but from all manner of historical circumstances ...
Listen NowDan Snow met Stephen Fry to talk about his passion for history and the Seven Deadly Sins in this filmed version of Dan Snow's History ...
Watch NowNow 100 years old, Save the Children was initially founded in response to the plight of German and Austrian children during the blockade of Germany in ...
Listen NowSusan Schulten presents a selection of maps from the fascinating collection of maps that feature in her book 'A History of America in 100 Maps'.
Watch NowTom Holland traces the history of Islam through the centuries, and its interaction and impact on Christendom and the modern-day western world.
Watch NowDan takes a walk around Colonial New York with Karen Quinones (of Patriot Tours) to explore the great battle and in its original setting.
Listen Now1666 historian Rebecca Rideal discusses the Great Fire of London, the subject of her book '1666: Plague, War and Hellfire'.
Listen NowDan Snow introduces four projects funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council over the last four years, highlighing underexplored aspects of First World War ...
Watch NowIn this fourth and final episode of our four-part audio drama, the veracity of Perkin Warbeck's story starts to unravel.
Listen Now20th May, 2019
Join Sam and James as they talk about the unexpected history of shipwrecks - through the fabulous example of the Vasa, a Swedish ship that ...
Listen Now19th May, 2019
Game of Thrones is, as you've definitely worked out by now, based heavily on the history of the Wars of the Roses. Famous for high ...
Listen Now16th May, 2019
Victor Hugo was exiled to Guernsey by the regime of Napoleon III, and so wrote many of his most famous works on the island, like “...
Listen Now14th May, 2019
Getting to the moon was no easy feat, no matter how confident Kennedy may have sounded in his famous 1961 speech. NASA built a team from ...
Listen Now13th May, 2019
Sam and James discuss all of the unexpected aspects of WWII, which is all about rubble, carrots, blood, pockets, suicide, gates, Zen Buddhism, furniture, cancer, ...
Listen Now12th May, 2019
The 1960s were an exciting time. The pill was invented in 1961, and for women everywhere it meant a newfound set of sexual freedoms; no longer ...
Listen Now10th May, 2019
The Foundlings were children whose mothers were destitute or dead, and they were taken in by various philanthropic institutions. One such place, the Foundling Hospital, ...
Listen Now8th May, 2019
Richard Sorge is one of the greatest spies in history. Famously he reported to Stalin that the Germans were going to invade Russia, and famously ...
Listen Now6th May, 2019
James and Sam explore the UNEXPECTED history of the Vikings. Who knew that the Vikings are all about graffiti, break-ins, criminal profiling, colour, teeth, keys, ...
Listen Now5th May, 2019
Stephen Fry talks to Dan about the study of history, deadly sins, Blackadder, eddas, W. H. Auden, Philip Guedalla, Dorothy Parker, the internet, online trolls, ...
Listen Now2nd May, 2019
Professor Sarah Knott talks to Dan about the history of motherhood and childbirth. She hasn't taken a linear approach in her research, so her discussion ...
Listen Now30th April, 2019
King George V played a critical role in Britain's war effort during World War One, from the outbreak of war in 1914, until the King's Pilgrimage ...
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