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The Mayflower and its Pilgrims
Episode 544
Why did the Pilgrims risk everything in search of a new life and religious freedom? Why does their contested history still matter ahead of the 250th…
2 months, 1 week ago
Jamestown: From Colony to Cannibalism
Episode 543
**This episode contains graphic explorations of starvation and cannibalism**
What happens when a colony reaches the edge of survival?
In this third epi…
2 months, 1 week ago
True Crime: Moll Cutpurse - London's Cross-Dressing Criminal
Episode 542
How did one woman scandalise sixteenth century London by refusing to live by its rules?
Mary Frith - aka Moll Cutpurse - rejected the expectations of …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Pocahontas & the Virginian Venture
Episode 541
How did the Stuarts turn fragile American outposts into an empire? How did English settlers, Native peoples - including Pocahontas - and London inves…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
How Guns Changed the World
Episode 540
How did the gun become a fashion item in Renaissance Italy? Why do debates over firearms, self-defence and public safety sound so familiar today?
Prof…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Elizabethans in America
Episode 539
How did two Indigenous men help shape Elizabethan England's dreams of empire? What do these early encounters tell us about the contested beginnings o…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Great Plague of London
Episode 538
What effect did the Great Plague have on Londoners, their society and the wider state?
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and Rebecca Rideal revisit the summ…
3 months ago
Anne Boleyn: Ambition or Faith?
Episode 537
Was Anne Boleyn a seductress, a schemer, or something far more radical? What happens when we look at Anne not through the lens of sex and scandal, bu…
3 months ago
Rise & Fall of James IV of Scotland
Episode 536
How did a teenage rebel become Scotland’s king, and rule a realm riven by feuds and shifting loyalties? James IV balanced chivalry, diplomacy, and da…
3 months, 1 week ago
True Crime: Medici Murder at the Louvre
Episode 535
**Warning: Contains graphic description of the mutilation of corpses**
In April 1617, Concino Concini, Marshal of France, was shot dead as he entered …
3 months, 1 week ago