Podcasts

Royal Favourites: Robert Dudley, Elizabeth I's Forbidden Love

Passion, scandal, and power collided in the tumultuous relationship between Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley. Rumours of secret trysts between them...

The Prehistoric Plague

The first ever outbreak of 'plague' - Yersinia Pestis, the most feared disease in human history - was long thought to be the Plague of...

Sex Work in Colonial India

When the British Empire colonised India, how did it treat their different ideas about sex? How did they treat sex workers like the Devadasi,...

Christine de Pizan: Pioneering French Feminist

How did a widowed mother transform loss, politics and misogyny into one of the most accomplished literary careers in medieval history?

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George Washington's Spies

During the Revolutionary War a vital web of intelligence was established, with General Washington at its head. Operating through coded letters,...

Speaking with the Dead: Ancient Necromancy

In Ancient Mesopotamia, the boundary between the living and the dead was not always fixed... some even believed it could be crossed. But why would...

Bloody Mary

In 1553, Mary Tudor became the first woman to sit on the English throne - a reign of just five years, that history has remembered almost...

The Persian Gulf

Near the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most vital commercial chokepoints, lies an ancient trade route that powered civilisation 4,000...

Anne of Cleves: New Discoveries

What if Henry VIII’s “discarded bride” actually showed real promise as queen?

Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is joined by Dr James Taffe...

How Scandalous Were Masquerade Balls?

Faces covered, identities unknown - masquerade balls sound like a place of anonymity and, therefore, SCANDAL.

But how true is this in the...

Saving Byzantium

Did Constantinople’s fall in 1453 end the Byzantine Empire as neatly as we think?

Dr. Eleanor Janega and Dr. Laura Bolick unpack the...

Geronimo's Rebellion and the Apache Wars

Geronimo's name is famous across the world: the Apache warrior who led a resistance movement against the United States out in the South West for...