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Watch NowHistorian and archaeologist Simon Elliott answers the key questions surrounding one of history's most compelling figures - Julius Caesar.
Watch NowStuarts and Restoration London historian Rebecca Rideal answers some of the key questions about the Restoration and the rule of Charles II. Rebecca is the ...
Watch NowIn this episode Dan visits Lincoln Castle to learn more about this fortification's fascinating history and its central role in Britain's national story.
Watch NowRecently Dan visited the once-gleaming Timbuktu with the International Committee of the Red Cross to learn more about its history and its vast collection of ...
Watch NowShort film following the story of Ada, a young woman from London who becomes a land girl in coastal Lincolnshire during the Second World War.
Watch NowOver the course of his 106 years, Doctor William Frankland has experienced more than most. He served with the Royal Medical Corps during World War Two, ...
Watch NowIn the first of this three-part series, we explore the "Great Awakening' in 5th century Greece, and examine how this process became the source of ...
Watch NowDan Snow joins a team of maritime archaeologists to explore First World War wrecks in Portsmouth Harbour. But will he make it across the treacherous ...
Watch Now18th April, 2019
Simon Winder's eclectic histories have ranged all over the Germanic countries, and he has concluded his Germania trilogy with Lotharingia, a book about the kingdom ...
Listen Now16th April, 2019
Dr Colleen Darnell talks to Dan about 'Tutmania', the phase of obsession with the uncovering of the tomb of Tutankhamun, as well as all things ...
Listen Now15th April, 2019
Dan talks to Jonathan Foyle in order to fully understand the history of the Notre-Dame cathedral, and how devastating this fire really is.For ad ...
Listen Now13th April, 2019
100 years ago, forces under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer fired upon on an assembled crowd of Indians, who had gathered in peaceful protest about ...
Listen Now12th April, 2019
Armand D'Angour, a renowned classical scholar, has found new sources that Socrates in fact received many of his ideas, particularly those about love, from a ...
Listen Now9th April, 2019
Andrew Lambert has written a magisterial history of sea power states, and the tools and methods of control they used to exert influence. From the ...
Listen Now7th April, 2019
Udham Singh, legendary in India but barely known in the western world, was present when the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar was perpetrated. Legend has ...
Listen Now5th April, 2019
Rutger Bregman, the Dutch historian who has been making waves at Davos, as well as irking the likes of Tucker Carlson in the states, chats ...
Listen Now3rd April, 2019
Jonathan Fennell has written a new book discussing the 'citizen armies' that made up the core of the British and Commonwealth armies, and Dan talks ...
Listen Now2nd April, 2019
Betty Webb was heavily involved with the work going on at Bletchley Park. While she was not part of the code-breaking team, her work was ...
Listen Now31st March, 2019
Melvyn Bragg talks to Dan about a philosopher and a scholar in the 12th century. Abelard was one of the best known theologians of the ...
Listen Now29th March, 2019
With the release of At Eternity's Gate starring Willem Dafoe as Vincent Van Gogh, Dan set off to find someone who knows about Vincent Van ...
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