Podcasts

Girl With a Pearl Earring: Identity Revealed

Could one of art’s greatest mysteries at last be solved? Who was the luminous girl with a pearl earring in Vermeer's iconic painting? ...

The Battle of Bosworth

In August 1485, the would-be king Henry Tudor went head-to-head with King Richard III - the final, decisive battle of the Wars of the Roses. Only...

Inside A Medieval Leper Colony

Come back with us to a Medieval leper colony.

What was life really like for patients inside the gates? What did it mean when the 'leper...

The Eleanor Crosses

The death in 1290 of Eleanor of Castile, beloved Queen of King Edward I, sparked one of the grandest gestures of royal mourning in English...

The Syphilis Explosion of the American Civil War

It's been estimated that between eight and twelve percent of soldiers contracted a venereal disease during the American Civil War. What on earth...

America's Greatest General

Eisenhower, Washington, Greene, Grant. There have been thousands of Generals in the United States' Armed Forces. Picking out the best of the crop...

The Top Assassination Attempts on Hitler

What does it take to kill a dictator? In this episode, we explore the most dramatic assassination attempts on Adolf Hitler. From Georg Elser, the...

Henry VIII's Reckoning: Pilgrimage of Grace

The Pilgrimage of Grace sounds calm, but was in reality a major uprising in the north of England against Henry VIII’s religious and political...

The Victorian's Dark Obsession with Ancient Egypt

The Victorians had a lot of twisted fascinations, but their fixation on Ancient Egypt might be the darkest of the lot.

From 'mummy...

The First Slave Republic & The Haitian Revolution

Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry reminds us of an often overlooked turning point in history: the Haitian Revolution, when the slaves of Haiti...

The First Arabians

What can ancient DNA tell us about the first homo sapiens to arrive in Arabia over 50,000 years ago? Tristan Hughes is joined by Prof. Pierre...

How Filthy Were Medieval People?

If there's one sure way to irritate an historian of the Medieval period, it's to ask why the people of the Middle Ages didn't wash.

In this...