Podcasts

Pre-historic Women

For years we've understood that in the prehistoric hunter-gather world, the men did the hunting and the women did the gathering. Prehistoric man...

The Battle of Valcour Island

The first naval engagement of the American War of Independence took place on Lake Champlain, which straddles modern-day New York state and Vermont...

The Murder of Christopher Marlowe

This month on Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb investigates four of history’s most notorious murders and brutal crimes.

In...

Homo Erectus

Before modern humans walked the earth, and even before the Neanderthals, Homo Erectus dominated the plains of Africa. Eventually migrating across...

Dan, The Skeletons and The Battle of Waterloo

Dan Snow’s History Hit hits the road to Belgium and the Waterloo Battlefield to see the soldier’s bones found in an attic earlier this...

Farming

Exactly when, where, how, why our ancient ancestors ‘invented’ farming is one of the great questions of archaeology.

Surely if we can...

Medieval Leaders and Queens: Aethelfled, Hildegard & Jadwiga.

Aethelfled, a warrior queen who crushed the Vikings, Jadwiga, the first Queen Regent of Poland and Hildegard of Bingen, an 11th-century polymath...

The Monastery That Held Back the Vikings

For monks and monasteries in Anglo-Saxon England, obliteration by Vikings was a constant threat. Like Lindisfarne - first raided in 793 AD -...

The Real Casanova

Can you imagine being SO smooth-talking and seductive your surname becomes an actual noun in the dictionary to describe someone who has a...

The Real Casanova

Content Warning This episode contains adult themes and language that may not be suitable for children.

On this special network crossover...

Jamestown

In late April 1607, three ships carrying a hundred men and boys arrived in Chesapeake Bay, having set sail from London four months earlier. They...

The History of Britain's Black Airmen

When you think of some of the remarkable feats of airpower throughout history, you might think of the Dambusters, or the Battle of Britain. But...