Lord Sumption, former Supreme Court judge, provides Dan a detailed run-through of the seisimic conflict that gripped England and France during the 14th and 15th ...
Watch NowFrom daring commando raids to an underwater reconnoitre of untouched World War Two archaeology, join Dan as he explores the extraordinary wartime history of Guernsey ...
Watch NowProfessor Mary Fulbrook talks to Dan about the justice process that followed the Holocaust, about what drove people to commit war crimes and what stopped ...
Watch Now'Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh' curator Dr. Tarek El Awady gives Dan an exclusive tour of the exhibition and the remarkable treasures of Tutankhamun, 'The ...
Watch NowAuthor Rory MacLean was present when the Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989. He talks about the jubilation of the East Berliners, as well as what ...
Watch NowProfessor of Modern History David Andress talks Dan through the French Revolution: the causes, the context, its significance and its wide-felt consequences.
Watch NowIn this interview (filmed in the summer of 2018) Wing Commander Tom Neil, one of the last of 'The Few' and an RAF fighter ace, talks ...
Watch NowLegend of popular history Mike Loades provides Dan a detailed run down of Henry V's famous victory at Agincourt on 25 October 1415 and how Henry V's ...
Watch NowThe Battle of Brunanburh was one of the bloodiest and biggest battles of early medieval history. No physical evidence exists of where it was fought. ...
Watch NowOn 21 October 1805 the British Royal Navy defeated the combined battle fleets of the French and Spanish empires 20 miles northwest of a promontory of rock and ...
Watch Now21st November, 2019
November 2019 marks the 500th anniversary of the meeting of Hernan Cortes and Aztec ruler Montezuma at the gates of the magnificent Aztec capital at Tenochitlan, ...
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Ben Monro-Davies is a journalist who has interviewed all the surviving participants of the cabinet meeting in which Margaret Thatcher announced her decision to resign. ...
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There is no more misunderstood doctrine than anarchism. Dan sets off to tackle his own lack of understanding by talking to Ruth Kinna, a Professor ...
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Professor Mary Fulbrook's book Reckonings won the 2019 Wolfson History Prize for its unique approach to the Holocaust, and in particular, those who perpetrated the atrocities. ...
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Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered by Howard Carter almost 100 years ago, and a major new exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery takes a look at some of ...
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The Allies seized the German fleet at the end of WW1 and it was held at Scapa Flow, in Orkney, until the terms of the ...
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Gary Lineker's grandfather was one of the 'D-Day Dodgers': men who fought in the Italian campaign, who were accused of missing the supposedly harder fighting ...
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Dan talks to Richard van Emden about his new book - Missing: The Need for Closure After the Great War. The backbone of the book ...
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The 9th November 1989 was one of the most significant dates in 20th century history. The Berlin Wall fell, changing the entire geopolitical situation and marking ...
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Dan chats to Tim Mohr, a Club DJ turned writer, who has a very different story of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Tim talks ...
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British military historian Mark Simner tackles the Opium Wars, rarely taught in English schools, but taught ubiquitously in China. He explains the provenance of both ...
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David Andress delves into the French Revolution, explaining its causes, its outcomes, and how we should look at its historical legacy. For ad free versions ...
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