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Season 1 Episode 40
From re-enactment to reinforcing capitalism through the board game Monopoly. Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland examine the history of games and the p…
5 years, 4 months ago
Elizabeth I
Season 1 Episode 39
She famously claimed to have the heart and stomach of a king and remains one of Britain’s most talked about monarchs, despite having reigned more tha…
5 years, 4 months ago
Communism
Season 1 Episode 38
It was one of the great political ideologies of the 20th century, vying with capitalism for supremacy.
Now communism has retreated from the political …
5 years, 4 months ago
Spies, with Ben MacIntyre
Season 1 Episode 37
History is littered with stories of espionage and its capacity to change the course of events. But does spying truly matter and has the human operati…
5 years, 5 months ago
Our Greatest Prime Minister
Season 1 Episode 36
In our last episode we debated the merits of British Prime Ministers through the centuries. But who was voted the best of all by the public and why? …
5 years, 5 months ago
The Prime Ministers’ World Cup
Season 1 Episode 35
Who is the greatest British Prime Minister of them all? The bookmakers have Winston Churchill favourite to lift the crown, but William Gladstone and …
5 years, 5 months ago
St Cuthbert’s Day
Season 1 Episode 34
March 20th marks the annual Feast day of the Northumbrian Saint Cuthbert. But why should we care about this largely forgotten figure from the 7th cen…
5 years, 5 months ago
The Beautiful Game
Season 1 Episode 33
It has been described as the most universal cultural mode there has ever been, but is football a worthwhile object of study for historians?
Sports jou…
5 years, 5 months ago
What if?
Season 1 Episode 32
Counterfactuals are the great what ifs of history.
Imagine the Nazis winning World War 2, or the Roman Empire never falling.
Is this a valid form of hi…
5 years, 5 months ago
The Second Reich
Season 1 Episode 31
It emerged from the Prussian victory over France in 1870 and was destroyed by the First World War less than fifty years later. German historian Katja…
5 years, 5 months ago