Podcasts

Henry III: England's Longest Reigning King

How did a nine-year-old boy save England from the brink of collapse? How did he transform a disastrous legacy into a remarkably stable...

The Mystic Nun Killed By Henry VIII

As if the Tudor world wasn't mad enough, in 1528 a mystic nun showed up demanding an audience with Henry VIII.

Elizabeth Barton stood in...

A Pirate's Life In Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced

Blackbeard, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Benjamin Hornigold... Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced recreates the key people, places and events of the...

Plessy v. Ferguson: The Supreme Court Case That Enshrined Jim Crow

In 1896 the Supreme Court ruled that Jim Crow segregation laws were not unconstitutional in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson. This is the case that...

The Fall of the Ancient Maya

What happens when a civilisation at its peak begins to fail? Historians have long been fascinated by the Maya Collapse in the 9th century: why the...

Scotland's First Warriors

Three thousand years ago, prehistoric Scotland was a landscape of rival communities, raids and warfare. Bands of warriors fought for power and...

William Cecil: The Power Behind Elizabeth I

Who really ruled Elizabethan England?

For almost four decades, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, guided Queen Elizabeth I through religious...

What Did The Vikings Do With Their Dead?

The world of Viking death rituals and their beliefs surrounding the afterlife is truly fascinating... What happened when a Viking died? What...

Medieval Sex Work & Brothels

**WARNING: This episode contains explicit language and sexual content

How did prostitution become so visible in medieval towns?...

Sex Lives of the Samurai

The samurai are some of the most mythologised people in history, so let's do some myth busting!

Kate is joined by Joe Nickols, who...

What Happened to the Confederates?

Across the defeated Confederacy, there had been an expectation that those who had taken up arms against their citizens would be punished. This did...

The Rise of the Ancient Maya

For more than 3,000 years, the Maya built one of the Ancient world's greatest civilisations. They raised towering pyramids in the rainforest,...